Minister Palaszczuk - "I haven't seen that report in quite a while" ...
Is the Minister referring to the missing hydrology reports for Toowoomba's three dams?
Not this time.
He was being quizzed about a report by engineering consultancy firm GHD which placed the site for the Traveston Dam below three other regions but couldn't name the other sites.
He said: "I can't remember off hand," he said. "I haven't seen that report in quite a while."
Expect it would be the same response if he was quizzed about the missing hydrology reports.
Premier Beattie seems to have skipped town at just the right time, leaving it to Minister Palaszczuk to explain that the proposed site for the Traveston Crossing Dam wall would have to be "realigned" after preliminary drilling found the area unstable.
Acting Premier Anna Bligh then revealed that the original "footprint" for Traveston Crossing Dam may be reduced slightly as a result of the tests.
Minister Palaszczuk then recalled a bit more about the GHD report:
"I think if we have a look at the sites that they investigated, I think Traveston and Tilly were around about number four and number five as the preferred sites, so they're right up there."
Source - Courier Mail - Changes anger residents.
Amazing!
Do you get the feeling that the Traveston Dam, like the Toowoomba Water Futures project, was not the best thought through project ever to hit the government project lists ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 7:12 AM
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Excerpt from Courier Mail article:
Regional water consumption dipped to 667 megalitres a day after the ban on outdoor hosing came into effect on Tuesday.
SEQWater had set a target of 730 megalitres a day, a 25 per cent drop in normal water use, but residents beat that by another 3 per cent.
The good news came as Natural Resources Minister Henry Palaszczuk, the man in charge of the State Government's controversial plan to build the Traveston Crossing dam on the Mary River, yesterday admitted the site would have to be changed and that it was the fourth on a list of preferred sites chosen by an engineering firm.
Mr Palaszczuk floundered badly during a radio interview in which he could not name the top three sites and had to admit the Traveston Crossing dam wall would have to be "realigned" because the bedrock was too deep.
Palaszczuk flounders badly
11:45 AM, June 16, 2006
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