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Murray Darling Basin : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 21/1/2019

And yet, as with the lakes in SA, we are dealing with a man-made rather than the natural environment, where droughts are cyclical.

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If our so-called leaders had any practical sense whatsoever they'd right now organise an aerial survey & infrared satellite imagery whilst the gulf rivers are in full run & find the natural flows closest to the lake Eyre basin. It'd be surprising how little work it'd actually take to divert water into the lake catchment. Guessing by past tactics they'll probably again wait for the dry & then, if they actually were interested at all, hire massively expensive consultants just to do over years what could now be done by only a few hours of plane & helicopter charters.
Is there a politician with sense. I'd have thought the water guzzling Cotton barons would grasp the opportunity without delay.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 26 January 2019 8:59:11 AM
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Individual it would be great to do the Bradfield scheme, but you miss the major problem.

Right now from Cairns to MacKay there are huge amounts of lovely fresh water rushing out to sea. Out there it will poison a large amount of coral. Large amounts of freshwater is death or at least bleaching to coral. It would be much more use inland.

The problem you ignore is that all that water will be gone in just a few days. It would require huge dams, much bigger than the Burdekin to retain much of this water long enough to pump a meaningful amount over the range to anywhere useful.

For many of the years I lived in the Whitsundays, the roads would be cut by heavy rain or a cyclone. The water would be gone in a day or two. If you can't hold it for at least a few months, you can't pump more than a few meg.

Do you really believe you could get this past the greenies. Hell even where we had done it with the snowy, they have demanded & got huge amounts returned to the Snowy, to rush uselessly out to sea.

Even when a great rice industry was established from the Burdekin it was destroyed by those greenies when they stopped control of Magpie geese that invaded in huge numbers. Now the rice has gone, & so of course have the geese. No synthetic habitat for them now.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 11:00:40 PM
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