by Michael Ord
A Building Queensland report into the troubled Paradise Dam has been before the Queensland state cabinet as Bundaberg region farmers appeal for a delay in plans to reduce the dam’s spillway level by five metres before the 2020-21 wet season over safety concerns. The dam was constructed between 2003 and 2005 under the Beattie Labor government.
A TROUBLED HISTORY
The 52-metre high Paradise Dam is a 300,000-megalitre storage on the Burnett River, 80 kilometres southw…
