Anna's plan to fill the dam - foolhardy
With SE Qld combined dams capacity over 40% and heavy rains predicted soon and in the next few months, there has been growing speculation as to whether recycled water, sourced from sewerage treatment plants will still be added to Wivenhoe Dam for domestic use.
To squash this speculation, Anna Bligh announced last week that unless Wivenhoe Dam was 100% full and it was physically impossible to add another drop, recycled water would still be pumped into the dam.
Anna Bligh is old enough to remember the devastation the 1974 flood wreaked on Brisbane and she should remember that Wivenhoe was built both for water storage and for flood mitigation purposes.
The SEQ Water website states:
"During a flood situation, the dam is designed to hold back a further 1.45 million megalitres , as well as its normal storage of capacity of 1.16 million megalitres.
"It is anticipated that, during a large flood similar in magnitude to that experienced in 1974, by using mitigation facility with the Wivenhoe Dam flood levels will be reduced downstream by an estimated 2 metres".
Filling Wivenhoe Dam as Anna Bligh wants to do with recycled water will put Brisbane and Ipswich at risk of severe flooding.
As with forced Fluoridation, Recycled Sewage Drinking water was also Anna Bligh’s idea. A Ministerial Statement put out by Premier Beattie 28 Jan 2007, cancelling the promised Referendum was that the " Deputy Premier " convinced him that recycled water was necessary.
"The data the Deputy Premier has presented to me upon my return indicates that it appears inevitable that we will have to rely on purified recycled water – it is no longer an option, we have no choice."
Common sense is called for, it is obvious that to be effective flood mitigation, Wivenhoe Dam should never be full, it is not meant to be full unless there is a flood. Using recycled sewage water for domestic use is unproven , it has huge potential for risk and t has never been done before, no-one on earth deliberately sources sewage water for a significant portion of their domestic supply.
Message authorised by Merilyn Haines
spokesperson for Queenslanders For Safe Water (www.qawf.org)
contact Mob 0418 777 112
Merilyn Haines will be standing as an independent candidate against Anna Bligh in her seat of South Brisbane at the next state elections.
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