Qld: Beattie causes dam pain

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2006
Qld: Beattie causes dam pain

Premier PETER BEATTIE has admitted plans to resume hundreds of rural homes to make
way for a massive new dam in south-east Queensland will cause hardship and pain.

Mr BEATTIE says the properties will have to go to make way for a major new dam in the
Traveston district along the Mary River near Gympie .. north of Brisbane.

The project is set to rival Brisbane's Wivenhoe Dam with a projected storage capacity
of 660 thousand megalitres.

It will supply Gympie and the Sunshine Coast regions when it's completed in 2011.

Mr BEATTIE flew over the two-thousand square kilometre catchment area yesterday ..

and says resumptions are unfortunate but inevitable.

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KEYWORD: POWER QLD (BRISBANE)

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