After the flooding in Brisbane on 11 October I checked the Southern Oscillation Index on the BOM web-site. In September it averaged 25. Very high!

Examining previous readings since 1876 the only times read more

Spoke to one of our locals from Ferny Hills on the SEQ Water Grid stand at the EKKA.

Most of our water for here does come from Enoggera Reservoir apparently although some other may get mixed in.

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Queensland’s Minister for Energy and Water Utilities is Stephen Robertson

Rainfall this summer in December is apparently above normal although a bit patchy over most of Queensland. Didn’t seem much rain in The Grove though!

We are now in our three heaviest rainfall months read more

We were at the Angligreen presentation on Coal Seam Gas and our great aquifers (Great Artesian Basin Condamine Alluvium and the river systems) and farmlands. Drew Hutton was there and gave a terrific read more

Picked up Arundhati Roy’s : The Cost of Living at Lifeline Bookfest. Published in 1999. An amazing gem on building huge dams.

She writes of the problems of big dams in general but the Sardar Sarovar read more

[url=http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/29-how-big-is-your-water-footprint]How big is your water footprint?[/url]

I just heard at the Markets that Mt Glorious had 300mm of rain in an hour (last week) and there was a similar flash flood down Samford Valley and Dayboro to the one in Toowoomba. We hadn’t heard read more

Here is a [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWzZjUduuBw]link to a YouTube video[/url] (2:45) taken at the confluence of Kedron Brook and Cedar Creek at Bob Cassimatys Park Ferny Grove on 11 January read more

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