Big, imaginative and bold infrastructure spend?

[Jovial Monk]

Qld still flooded, southern Aust still in drought, MD a series of puddles.

Coopers & Diamentina rivers (one other, can't think of name right now) often run, dumping water into Lake Eyre where it evaporates

Could water (some water, and this sensitively done, not disrupting ecology etc) be pumped from these rivers into the Darling? I have discussed this with Lefty on KRW--something was proposed 70 years ago called the Bradfield Scheme. Lefty further said that if the Burdekin could be tapped vast water resources could become available.

I saw this today in a comment on George Megalogenis article in the OO:

The Burdekin to Warrego Water Transfer Project has been designed and costed, this is just one project that could reinvigorate the inland and the benefits for the Murray Darling System, agricultural expansion, associated service industries, export opportunities and tax receipts is obvious!

Apart from the Ord Scheme this nation has been bereft of large scale projects for way too long...we have to invest to ensure prosperity for future generations.

Anyone know anything about this scheme?

PS: I did NOT recommend damming the fucking Coopers etc rivers--sensitively!

[Jovial Monk]

hey, we could stick a huge fucking nuclear power station in outback Qld since the scheme provides all the fresh water it needs for cooling!

[Jovial Monk]

While kicking slothful Fib govt, here is a snippet from PB:

The biggest peice of infratructure delivered in Howard/Costellos time in office was the Perth - Mandurah railway - over a billion $ and highly successful (patronage went from 14000 passengers per day to over 55000). It was done by WA govt without a single dollar of Federal assistance because they refused to fund urban public transport.

[freediver]

They are prohibitively expensive. It is much cheaper to save water than to pump it around the continent.

[Jovial Monk]

No water to be saved! MD 24% capacity!

Not sure HM pumping needed, no big mountains in between.

Anyway, the size and scope of the project would really revitalise the economy and country! The Snowy wasn't cheap!

[Rainbow Moonlight]

http://epress.anu.edu.au/anzsog/auc/pdf/ch06.pdf

Also findable by searching "The Burdekin to Warrego Water Transfer Project" - google has an html version.

[JW Frogen]

Or the Smokey and the Bandit great river race.

[Jovial Monk]

Thx ele