Wivenhoe release cost irrigators thousands

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http://www.qt.com.au/news/torrent-cost-irrigators-thousands/2635041/

I have no sympathy. It's not hard to keep an eye on lake levels via the BOM website. You'd think one would be even more motivated if you had your pump by the river during a bit of a rain event. Somebody call the whaaaaambulance!

The comments below the story are even worse.....

It took the dam operators from Friday night until Sunday morning to lift the river level to seqwater's desired peak. It was on the way down by Sunday evening and didn't get back to normal until Friday. If it had been a natural flood event it would have come and gone a lot quicker.

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Yep, SEQWater are on a flogging to nothing bet.  They can't release it too early, or too late.  How much water does a Grass Tree Farmer need?  They seem to grow OK in the bush without irrigation.

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Why don't they just grow some balls up on that dam wall and keep the water, look out the windows ffs, notice that its stopped raining. I know you have a new manual but maybe you should get the old one out again.  I thought the governments past and present spent our hard earned to raise the wall so it could hold more. To let the water out  is an absolute waste of an asset. Two days ago BOM was saying we are going to have a drought again. Now if I was  farmer on a river that is prone to flooding or man made,  I would have a pump on steel wheels that can be hauled up and down on a winch as need be. Not stand and cry and blame someone else and yes get used to looking at the dam heights...

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Most people I know who irrigate from rivers have their pumps mounted in frames they can easily lift quite high. So no problem with struggling about tryingto move pumps etc.

As stated, whingers if they cant be bothered listening to the radio or looking at the web site,or putting their equipment on easily moveable mounts or frames.

Only reason they have a water supply to irrigate from is the Govt is to lazy to build a pipeline from Wivanhoe to Brisbane and turn off their free water supply.

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Only reason they have a water supply to irrigate from is the Govt is to lazy to build a pipeline from Wivanhoe to Brisbane and turn off their free water supply.

If that ever happened, it would kill the 60kms of river between Wivenhoe and Mt Crosby. Luckily the $200mill price tag of that pipeline is a good enough deterrent to the politicians.

The papers publish the lake levels every day in the weather section, plus multiple avenues online to source lake levels and river levels, plus the seqwater SMS that goes out to those interested enough to register yet this is somehow not enough???

Blind freddy who has lived on the river since 2011 would have guessed that going into the last rain event with Wievnhoe at 98% of full supply (which is actually only 40% of total volume), a cow pissing into the dam would raise the dam level into the flood compartment zone. Freddy would have moved his pumps