The scheme that Bradfield proposed in 1938 required large pipes, tunnels, pumps and dams to divert water from the upper reaches of the Tully, Herbert and Burdekin rivers. The three rivers are fed by the monsoon, and flow east to the Coral Sea. Pictured is an illustration of the scheme which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1938.
THE State Government has scrapped plans to drought-proof the parched regions of ...
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