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  1. #76

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    To cause some uproar. I know that the Shire or Esk near Wivenhoe Dam, pumps its sewage into Wivenhoe.
    So it looks like were already drinking it.

  2. #77

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by keenfisha View Post
    1. Our North Queensland counter-parts are probably laughing at the plight of South East Queensland as they get inundated by flooding and cyclonic conditions and in turn dams that are bursting with water. Queensland is a big state so why is everyone over-crowding the South-Eastern corner when they could be bombarding North Queensland and exploiting their dams and reservoirs?

    2. The Queensland Transport Department needs to be shutdown. The other day we waited one hour to get served while the silly-lookin' sheila went to lunch and the whole place got over-crowded. Any government department that makes you wait an hour to get served for two minutes needs to be shutdown or better still replaced by a better system.

    Cheers,

    keenfisha
    Evening keenfisha,

    Re point #1: I ascertain that the main reason people don't move north is the fear of the unknown. After cyclone Larry; there was a lot of trepidation but this could have been due to media portrayal as well. All the devastation and when they did any form of initial investigation, found that there were annual storms here up to Larry's intensity at worst.

    Secondly, the average wage here in Cairns alone is about $35k why would you leave a job in a capital city and take a $20k pay cut approximately? Fortunately this is not what happened to me but as job here paying $45k or over is pretty hard to come by even with years of experience.

    In all honesty I wonder how people afford to buy a house up here for a family when the average price is around $450k for a new 3 to 4 bedroom house .
    Yes, you can get older houses much cheaper but they require so much work that it's a joke and you'll end up spending the same money in the end to fix up a house with problems, if the owner or agent will come clean on them (the ethics of a certain Ray White office on the northern beaches leaves a lot to be desired).

    It used to be that the cost of living in the north was much less than the capital cities; i can tell you for a fact since we moved north, the COL is as bad if not worse. I'm just glad that my employer pays me a realistic wage :undecided:.

    Re Point #2: I used to work for Main Roads In Mackay and we had to go assist our fellow employees at Transport for IT related issues on a regular basis.

    I can assure you it;s not the people behind the counter that are at fault or the management of the respective CSC (Customer Service Centre); staffing edicts and policies come from Spring Hill. I can recall trying to get access once to their network (or necessary permissions) to resolve an issue and you would have thought I asked for the Premiers login !!

    The red tape in QLD Transport is ridiculous; then like I was told, in Government there is a form for everything and if there isn't then they are working on it
    Last edited by Synful; 03-02-2007 at 10:30 PM. Reason: minor corrections.
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  3. #78

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Choper. Please forgive those who jump in to soon. A keen eye you have.
    All the best to you and your family.





    signed tunaman

  4. #79

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Sunday mail 4/2/07
    Recycled mix may be 50:50
    SOUTHEAST Queensland could have the highest percentage of recycled water in its drinking supply of any place in the world if the drought continues.
    If Brisbane's dams are almost empty when the recycled water pipeline comes on line late next year, all that would be left in the dam would be a 50-50 mix of desalinated and recycled water.
    The chairman of the Water Commission's recycled water advisory panel, University of Queensland professor Paul Greenfield, said he wasn't aware of a higher recycled water concentration anywhere.
    "It's a high percentage, but the water is very pure. With the dam levels very low, that's an inevitability that we have to face," he said.
    The Government intends to pump up to 120 million litres of recycled water a day into the Wivenhoe Dam in December 2008.
    The next month, 125 million litres a day of desalinated water would be pumped from Tugun, on the Gold Coast.
    By then, Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine dams might be down to 5 per cent of capacity. (end from Sunday Mail)

    Now won't have too worry about putting all that salt on the food you eat and taking vitamins for supplement for daily intake in the future be all in the water that going to drink

    Mitch
    Last edited by Redspeckle; 04-02-2007 at 06:53 AM. Reason: Fixing up my English

  5. #80

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Saw a inconsiderate bloke yesterday at a Caloundra boat ramp. He took 15 minutes to wash his 12ft tinnie with a hose he bought with him plugged into the tap at the ramp.

    What a waste of water. He had the tap fully on and he would put the running hose on the ground when he wanted to scrub a part of the boat. He then washed his car with detergent on the boat ramp all up taking around 25 minutes. What a loser and with the water shortage I was hoping a council investigator would show up but then do they work on the weekends?.

    Bob

  6. #81

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by aussie_true_blue View Post
    Saw a inconsiderate bloke yesterday at a Caloundra boat ramp. He took 15 minutes to wash his 12ft tinnie with a hose he bought with him plugged into the tap at the ramp.

    What a waste of water. He had the tap fully on and he would put the running hose on the ground when he wanted to scrub a part of the boat. He then washed his car with detergent on the boat ramp all up taking around 25 minutes. What a loser and with the water shortage I was hoping a council investigator would show up but then do they work on the weekends?.

    Bob
    its marvellous bob eh,,,,, some have no idea,,,,,,, you know,, i live on bribie and like all perservere with lvl 4 water restrictions,,, but i work in currimundi with none,,,

    it seems as soon as you pass the glasshouse mtns turn off on the bruce the grass gets greener,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    can it get any better??????????????,,,,,,,,,,,,,,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgG_TxEPaQE



  7. #82

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    I can't speak for everyone, but when wondering why more people don't migrate north to take advantage of the flowing water "up there", I have to say it's purely and simply the heat.
    Nothing to do with loosing 20K in my income (that's a laugh), nor to do with being too scared of storms.
    just that stinking opressive heat, otherwise I'd gladly be up there.

    That heat up there is full on hey.

    And if I could add my thought on wasting water;
    I used to live on bribie too, and the water waste I saw there was beyond comparrison. I'm not talking about people pumping from bores either.
    There were people who had minature irrigation systes that moved across the front lawn! Like a bloody commercial irrigation set up. A normal day around home was just amazing to me, to see people standing around mindlessly letting water spray in one dirtection and all.

    There were no water restrictions back then, but from my persepective of haviong lived out in the bush for a lot of years, it was simple out and out waste, regardless of what the dam levels were. Watering the lawn up until the point of benifitting the plants when no restricts exist is fine, but I'm talking about watering to the point where soil nutes had to be getting washed away. I know retirment is boreing etc, but gee, if people (not just bribie residents ) had been sensible before they were forced to be, we'd still be fine, and no tralk of drinking toilet water would ven be among us.

    It's just terrible that legislation needs to be introduced befor epeople consider what they're doing.

    cheers
    rob
    Last edited by robyoung2; 05-02-2007 at 03:08 PM.

  8. #83

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    correct me if i'm wrong, but is beattie not talking about 10% only recycled/desal percentage. Would that not mean that wivenhoe at its now 27% would go up to 29.7%. I'm no professor, but I don't think that will save the world.

    Again, correct me if i'm wrong, but the majority of countries using desal and recycled water have poor rainfall. We don't in SEQ. In fact, january was above average.

    Jim

  9. #84

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    I think that 10% figure is based on a full dam volume. So if the dam was full there would be 10% recycled/desal water in it.

    As for the rainfall, it didn't fall in the correct areas to fill the dams. I read a paper (don't remeber where) that said the rainfall in SEQ does tend to cycle around. Possibly in 10 - 15 years time it will be falling in the dam areas and not solely on the coastal zones. All we need is one cyclone to hit down here and the dams will be full. And about half of the houses on the Gold Coast will be under water!

    Brett

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  10. #85

    Re: Queenslanders to drink toilet water by 2009

    Bundaberg Rum operation is right next door to the Bundy Sewerage Treatment Plant so does that tell you something??

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