[permaculture-oceania] The damming of the Mary River

[len organicpc]

yeh that item has been around for a while now, before any thoughts of an 
early election it was full on, then once an early election was cemented they 
said it won't go ahead (vote catching) now after the election it is back on 
again.

it is just anotehr ill conceived dam idea just like wivenhoe was and a few 
otehrs they are built in very shallow catchment areas that msotly only hold 
flood water from flooding areas fown stream, never designed as water 
storages. and yes because they spread out so far and so shallow they take up 
a lot of good land.

and argueably due to the extended dry times the mary river itself is not in 
good health so a dam will liley also make that worse, so bodes against the 
mary river cod and there is a turtle involved as well that groups are 
wroking to save from the extinct list.

the dam will not solve a single problem to do with making fresh water 
availability more secure.

after all one of the new ministers said all they have to do to make water 
restrictions a thing of the past is to charge more for water, privatise 
water, and pump treated effluent into the system, problem solved she said.


With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

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"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

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>From: "P Ferguson" <pennyfer at bigpond.net.au>
>Reply-To: permaculture-oceania <permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au>
>To: "permaculture oceania" <permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au>
>Subject: [permaculture-oceania] The damming of the Mary River
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:10:44 +1000
>
>On TV news last night was an item from Queensland, where residents were 
>demonstrating against the building of a dam on the Mary River.   On guy 
>interviewed said 500 properties would be flooded.
>
>P Ferguson
>Illawarra NSW
>


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