Two ABC articles in the last few days tell the story. Remember in Mid October 2019 while a drought was on in NSW PM Morrison offered NSW, with ex Premier Berijiklian at his side, a $Billion Fed moolah for a new Dungowan Dam (Tamworth water supply) and enlarged Wyangla Dam. I have blogged twice on the issue that nothing was happening on these projects except paper pushing – ScoMo $Bill on NSW dams 27Sep2020 www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=6535 – and late last year – Anti-dam greens rule is total in NSW 4Nov2021 www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=6814 . Now OurABC reports $350 million Mole River Dam near Tenterfield scrapped amid doubt about NSW dam projects www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-01/350-million-dollar-mole-river-dam-near-tenterfield-scrapped/101118102 and NSW dam managers face huge challenge to stop rivers flooding during near-record wet www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-03/burrendong-dam-record-rainfall-managing-flooding-risk/101122316 – Sorry about lack of normal hyperlinks. I updated WP and now it has taken away the normal edit functions when writing a post.
Greemist drongos rule !
No doubt they will be blaming the next inevitable drought on irrigators !
How does “pumped hydro” work without dams to pump up to ?
Blakers (ANU) has been very vocal for some years about pumped hydro saving the day, but dishonestly coy about where to place the “storage” dams. Quelle Surprise …
>”I updated WP and now it has taken away the normal edit functions when writing a post” [Warwick, main body post]
I avoid “updates” without the ability to revert without damage. Updates are how the Silicons slip in stuff we don’t want and remove stuff we like. Just another facet of their control lust. While on this sub-topic, I’ve been amused to see that the brat Cannon-Brookes’ “Confluence” programme (Atlassian flagship – it’s like zoom or other combinative programmes) is under deliberate troll attack for known security failures – Atlassian has initiated patching, it says, without a time table or indication of the extent of rewrite. It advises that the internet be turned off for the duration when using Confluence … so unless you’re on an intranet, the programme has become useless, but licence and update fees are still applicable, of course.
Just checking on rainfall in Perth’s dam catchment area, I was astonished to see that Bickley recorded 459.2 mm of rain in July 2021. The BoM reports the long term July average for Bickley since 1969 as 219.7 mm. I can’t recall any media coverage or comment on this veritable deluge in the dam catchment area, yet this may well have been a new record.
It’s worth a look at the Water Corp’s publicly available data on Perth dam levels. The steady increase in dam levels evident in the data (from 1 Jan 2011) runs contrary to common understanding.
Yes it was the highest rain year for Bickley since 1996
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=139&p_display_type=dataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=009240
I must check back on my index of Perth Catchment rain and see what it shows
Thanks for reminders – In October last year I posted –
Bickley in Perth Hills wettest year since 1996
But I must check my index of Perth Catchment rain and see what it shows