Traveston Dam - Why Not
As resistance to Traveston Dam grows and the Teflon Premier refuses to look at other options we are seeing more and more reasons appearing for not building the dam.
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There are suggestions that a government report that was commissioned in 1994 ruled Traveston out because of the high cost and loss of prime agricultural land.
Experts suggest that regional weather patterns around the proposed dam will only be full at the same time as any of the other dams that are currently at critical levels.
The Australian is currently reporting that their investigations show that the soil beneath the dam is so porous that there would be considerable loss of stored water through seepage.
The Queensland Farmers Federation syas that 180 productive farms will disappear under water and that 10% of southern Queensland’s dairy production happens on some of those 180 farms.
Even industry here in Hervey Bay will be affected when the Traveston Dam is built. The Dam will obviously seriously affect the flow of the Mary River into Hervey Bay and that will reduce fish stocks to the point where the local fishing industry will cease to exist.
Traveston Dam is not the answer to anything - all it will do is create major problems in the future - but by then Teflon Pete won’t have to worry about them because he will have retired on a nice fat pension.
