Picture Gallery > Traveston Swamp (21)
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Comparison of proposed Traveston Crossing Dam and Sydney Harbour
An interesting comparison with Sydney Harbour. Scales correct to within about 2%
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Kandanga map
Zoned map of Kandanga, highlighted the 80m contour level - this doesn't include the buffer zone.
Contour lines on the CSC maps are based on aerial surveys done a long time ago. The elevations are probably +/- 5 metres at best. -
Concept drawing of dam wall, saddle dam and spillway.
Air photo and drawing tabled during State Parliamentary estimates comittee hearing. Published on front page of Gympie Times.
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SEQ Regional Forestry Agreement
Map of areas protected under the SEQ Regional Forestry Agreement. The major areas selected include:
Wrattens, Kadanga, Mapleton, the Conondales, Belthorp and the D’Aguila, Ranges west of Brisbane - Gympie and significant areas adjacent to Bunya Mountains National Park, Heildon Hills and State forests along the Scenic Rim in the southwest of the region. For further readingPicture obtained from>> http://www.rainforest.org.au/seqfa_map.htm
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Inundation map - Traveston dam at 79.5m
The Queensland Government has an information sheet which includes a detailed map of the area affected by the Dam proposal.
The shaded blue area is at 71m above sea level (about 6m average depth)
The thin blue line is 79.5 m above sea level (about 8m average depth)
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Sunwater Map-90 metre inundation
A map generated by Sunwater in August 2006 showing a 90m above sea level inundation zone as part of their investigations of the impact of the dam on flooding of properties upstream of the dam wall.
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Fault lines
This one shows geological faulting.
Without the geologist’s reports from the DNR drilling, or the seismic data and reports, it is nigh on impossible to interpret this info in the context of water seepage or geomechanical stability. However, the info is presented here in the interests of public scrutiny. -
new dam wall
Revised image of the dam wall and abuttment 31 OCT 2006
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gorrillagram
Mr Gibson yesterday responded by suggesting that Ms Bligh must have her head buried in the sand if she does not already know how he and other people in his electorate feel.
“What’s she want, a Gorillagram?” he asked.
“Because if that’s what it takes to get through to her, I’ll send her one,” he promised. -
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Country Life
COOLOOLA’S business and political leaders yesterday blasted the State Government’s Traveston Crossing dam company for falsely claiming their support for the controversial dam.
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Mary River - choking on weeds
BE warned - images of the Mary River choked with weed could indeed be a crystal ball glance at the future, should dual events occur. If river flows continue to be compromised by a lack of rain events, or by the building of the flawed Traveston Crossing Dam, these “dead zones” could join to become a continuous strip of lifeless water cutting through neighbouring shires.
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Water hyacinth and salvinia
“The levels of invasive floating weeds - water hyacinth and salvinia - are collecting in these big rafts and beneath them is no light~or oxygen, nothing can surface or dive through this mass.” The floating mats are the obvious sign of an impending problem, but waiting in the wings is an even greater concern, with small colonies of the weeds tucked into banks in all the tributary creeks along the Mary River’s 300-kilometre length.
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Huge Fish Kill in the Mary River
I went for a dive at the beginning of the week at Widgee crossing (Mary River) and could not believe the amount of dead and dying fish. I am wondering if it has anything to do with the recent cold snap (the water was bloody freezing) or if a poison has been used to try to control the spreading Hyacinth.
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highway_dam.jpg
In a press statement today, Queensland Water Infrastructure proudly released the latest in their series of “artists impressions” of their ongoing engineering of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam. The latest image depicts part of the re-location of the Mary Valley Highway near Kandanga. “We’re very proud of this artist’s impression” said QWIPL CEO Graeme “half-a” Newton. “A lot of people think that all of our skills base resides in river hydrology and dam engineering. But I think this drawing will prove to our critics that we are equally skilled in road design”.
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