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The Bradfield Party Irrigation Scheme is excruciatingly simple
With just one dam and one channel we will deliver x Sydney harbours to the Murray Darling system and put the Darling into perpetual flow
#buildthebradfield
With just one dam and one channel we will deliver x Sydney harbours to the Murray Darling system and put the Darling into perpetual flow
#buildthebradfield
With the dam at 350 meters above sea level we build a channel high in the valley (not the valley floor) keeping a slowl gravity fed flow, supplying Burdekin irrigators with gravity along the way saving millions in pumping costs
Further south, where the GDR is lower, we cross from the east to the west of the GDR at around the 300 MASL
Befored chasing levels all the way to St George and feed into the Darling
Befored chasing levels all the way to St George and feed into the Darling
The Upper Burdekin averges 45,000 GL in its 3 flood months - we will harvest just 5% - sending 2,000 GL south to produce food
In a drought year this represents 30% increase for MDB irrigators
#buildthebradfield
In a drought year this represents 30% increase for MDB irrigators
#buildthebradfield
It's up to the states to use their share of the water where they like
QLD can chose to use their water to create new irrigation areas or to grow their existing areas
QLD can chose to use their water to create new irrigation areas or to grow their existing areas
NSW can choose to create new irrigation areas or to bolster their current irrigators by simply allowing the Bradfield water to flow through the SA thereby reducing the water that they need to release to SA
The second option greatly reduced stress in the Barmah Choke
The second option greatly reduced stress in the Barmah Choke
Victoria access their water by simply releasing less water to SA and making more water available to irrigators
We strongly suggest the water is used upstream of the Barmah Choke to ease stress on it
Great outcomes for Goulburn R irrigators
@sheppartonnews @KyabramFreePres
We strongly suggest the water is used upstream of the Barmah Choke to ease stress on it
Great outcomes for Goulburn R irrigators
@sheppartonnews @KyabramFreePres
SA get a guaranteed increase of 500 GL per year
Where NSW and Vic use their water has zero impact in SA - but a great impact on the Barmah Choke and Forest
@RiverlandNews
Where NSW and Vic use their water has zero impact in SA - but a great impact on the Barmah Choke and Forest
@RiverlandNews
The channel will have the added benefit of producing hydro power at key level changes at infrustructure points
Introduced Species?
Yep, it's a problem to overcome
Level changes at hydro's will provide 100% up steam migration barriers - tick
Minor changes will make them 100% downstream
PS: Bloody Cane Toad has already got to St George and has only been stopped by frosty inland winters
Yep, it's a problem to overcome
Level changes at hydro's will provide 100% up steam migration barriers - tick
Minor changes will make them 100% downstream
PS: Bloody Cane Toad has already got to St George and has only been stopped by frosty inland winters
We will hold a national design competition for man made waterholes along the 1,000 km route of the - building the best 200 - this will provide drought relief for our Native flora and fauna
Lastly
We build our first dam within a dam (upscaled permaculture) in the Hume to create
1. The largest man made swamp in the world - hugely productive natural enviro
2. Year round jobs in @UpperMurrayTour
Study, repeat all over Australia
We build our first dam within a dam (upscaled permaculture) in the Hume to create
1. The largest man made swamp in the world - hugely productive natural enviro
2. Year round jobs in @UpperMurrayTour
Study, repeat all over Australia
It keeps getting better
If CO2 is your poison
The Bradfield Party Irrigation Scheme is your antidote
#buildthebradfield
If CO2 is your poison
The Bradfield Party Irrigation Scheme is your antidote
#buildthebradfield
A great example of low pressure hydro
When banked up and all flows diverted thru these also act http://as.an upstream migration barrier
When banked up and all flows diverted thru these also act http://as.an upstream migration barrier
Many have asked about northern basin storage and evaporation
Problem solved https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/CSIRO-finds-up-to-eight-Sydney-Harbours-could-be-stored-under-the-Murray-Darling-Basin
Problem solved https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/CSIRO-finds-up-to-eight-Sydney-Harbours-could-be-stored-under-the-Murray-Darling-Basin
Solar panels above the channel will be the first solar farm in Australia that does not cut down a single tree, reduce evaporation, and cool the panels for increased efficiency
All other solar farms must be cancelled immediately
#buildthebradfield https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy
All other solar farms must be cancelled immediately
#buildthebradfield https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-solar-canals-revolutionising-indias-renewable-energy
Rural Recovery Initiative
Federal Green Corps
Rotating
1. Farm dam upgrade program
2. Fire Hazard Reduction
3. Lancare programs
4. Trained as Rural Firefighters
5. Up to 3 months leave on full pay to work in Seasonal Agriculture jobs
Federal Government Employees
Federal Green Corps
Rotating
1. Farm dam upgrade program
2. Fire Hazard Reduction
3. Lancare programs
4. Trained as Rural Firefighters
5. Up to 3 months leave on full pay to work in Seasonal Agriculture jobs
Federal Government Employees
Rural Recovery Initiative
No HECS / HELP charged for 1st year of University if it is done on campus at Rural/Regional Institutions
Putting young adults in rural areas for a year will give them so much more than they can possibly learn in the class room
Great for regions too
No HECS / HELP charged for 1st year of University if it is done on campus at Rural/Regional Institutions
Putting young adults in rural areas for a year will give them so much more than they can possibly learn in the class room
Great for regions too
