I see this morning that Ross River dam levels @ the spillway have reduced 0.25m overnight.
The ABC had this map of flood levels tweeted from Townsville local govt.- first useful map I had seen in a week but I can not find the source. Tables rain history – Townsville Aero monthly rain from 1941 – and Townsville Pilot Station monthly rain from 1871 1951
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I think about diverting that water every time I see the recent flood news reports.
Elon Musk and his Boring company has supposedly lowered the cost of tunnelling wit TBMs.
Maybe it is time to seriously revisit the Bradfield scheme.
Bradfield was criticised for over estimating the river flow rate,
but you have to wonder in light of recent floods.
It would be so good if they could reduce flood severity and irrigate the dry inland.
Not to mention reduce coral bleaching and excess nutrients from fresh water flowing uselessly into the sea.
I am not against looking at Qld possibilities but I would also like to see feasibility done on the NSW Northern Rivers that often flood to the sea. What dam sites exist where a tunnel could transfer water to tribs of Darling R? But I think there are negligible possibilities for this sort of infrastructure policy now after decades of anti-damism, Greens, Indigenous, anti-population campaigners, plain old garden type nimbys and too many nervous nellies conned by climate change.
They are shutting down the irrigation systems that already exist. Slim chance that a new one would be allowed.
Jeff. With you on that idea. I think Australia needs a national drainage/water grid that takes the water inland towards the parts of the country that are below sea level. Those wishing to use it for pumped storage could jump on board. I expect if well designed it would end up storing it’s own generation. The Murray darling issues would be sorted. The desal plants could be scrapped. Water has so many uses.
The benefits are endless. A sun burnt country needs an inland sea.
Siliggy,
An inland sea might just affect the climate.
This would be disallowed because the only thing that is permitted to adjust climate is CO2.
So there!
2 inches rain at Longreach overnight. I wonder what the value of each inch would be as it extends south.
On 31 January, the BoM’s rainfall outlook for February gave less than a 40% chance of Townsville exceeding its median rainfall in February, and less than a 15% chance of it exceeding 600 mm: www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/rainfall/exceedance/600/monthly/0
Yet in the next five days, Townsville had 754.3 mm of rain, and there are still 23 days of February left!
www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW4128.latest.shtml
Looks like another BoM forecasting triumph…
Thanks for that nudge David. What a shame it is near impossible to get any politician to question the BoM. We have Senate Estimates for a week from 18th.
www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Events_Calendar/Events_Search_Result#range=yearly&display=calendar&from=2019-01-01&to=2019-12-31&senate=1&house=1&estimates=1&sb=1&sa=1&ss=1&committees=0&sh=0&hh=0&jh=0&sc=0&ir=0&visit=0&tr=0&se=0&ex=0&od=0&general=0&pubhol=1
Not to mention the Senate too.