The Bradfield Scheme
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
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**Chapters**
00:00 - Presenter Intro | Welcome to Country | Polls
03:40 - What is the Bradfield Scheme?
10:39 - Modelling tools used
17:08 - Scheme feasibility
22:55 - Contemporary scheme-Murray Darling Basin | "food bowl"
28:36 - Gravity diversion | St George
31:17 - Financial Assessment - Murray Darling Basin
35:11 - Costs | Key weaknesses | Benefits
40:54 - Alternative schemes | Interconnected grids
47:54 - Regional grids | Water security
52:00 - Q&A
1:06:36 - Wrap up | future training
*Description** Webinar number 149
The Bradfield Scheme
Does Australia’s famous transbasin diversion proposal stack up? Discover more about the science behind its evaluation and lessons learned about inter-basin water diversion.
Since first proposed nearly 80 years ago, Dr John Bradfield’s “nation building” 2000-km inter-basin water diversion scheme proposal has been a millstone around the necks of successive federal and state governments. So engrained is the scheme in the Australian psyche that drought in south-eastern Australia has become synonymous with calls for the schemes construction among a chorus of encouragement from high-profile Australians.
In 2020, the National Water Grid Authority commissioned Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, to undertake a comprehensive analysis of Bradfield’s original scheme and modern-day variants to objectively assess the numerous claims and counter-claims of ‘Bradfield Scheme’ advocates and critics alike. In presenting the results of the analysis, this webinar will outline some of the novel methods that were developed for rapidly evaluating water storage and diversion infrastructure and highlight broad learnings, many of which are also applicable globally.
This special 75-minute webinar is chaired by Water Research Australia's Jacqueline Frizenschaf, with key presentations from CSIRO's Cuan Petheram, Chris Stokes and water strategist Tom Vanderbyl. A large panel of experts including; Jenny Hayward, Rebecca Bartley, Chris Chilcott, Kevin Devlin, Seonaid Philip and Arthur Read. Please see their biographies here: awschool.com.au/training/webi...
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Unless there are creative water capturing skill in North Australia.....will never be able to solve the water problem
The problem with this scheme is that it doesn't create profitable farm land for the build cost. Due to evaporation? I though the idea is rehydrate the land while evaporation would create microclimates and fund future works. Over time
Thats exactly right, im not sure why they would skip over that. The entire point is to reintroduce water into these environments. Evaporation and Increased Rainfall help droughts, reclaim land from deserts and create microclimates that are more preferential for living + farming.
These w*nkers already decided their anti-brand field stance prior to commencing investigation, CSIRO has become a political driven institution rather than a bastion of great Australian Science.
your missing the key points where money and "it'll end up on the coast anyway" comments showing the REAL reason they're not interested in it. It should be done for rehabilitation and actual positive climate 'enhancing' changes. Even a desal plant and a pipeline would surface to be honest.
Oh yes the evaporation argument, explain to me Lake argyle then? A man mad lake built on the river ord in what is arguably one of the hottest and driest places in Australia and it’s ALWAYS FULL, can you explain why it’s always full? Cos as you said, being such a scholar, it should’ve all evaporated right? Please explain….
@@tydal2346 explain to me Lake argyle, please, explain 😂🤦🏻♂️
Do Aussies just ignore the north west corner of our great country? It’s extremely hot and brutal but there in lies one of the biggest man made dams on the river ord called Lake Argyle and it’s kinda always full? Anybody? 😂
anything west of the diving range is a foreign concept to 90% of people tbh mate... It literally makes all the money for the coastal dwellers to afford their shitty lifestyle.
@@Brendan77able Yes you’re right but my point is that the mere existence of this massive Lake in outback brutally hot Australia completely destroys these evaporation nutters argument?
@@ashdog236 Oh I am with you on that... in fact, I'd like to see a desal plant that fed the northern rivers into the channel country river systems that would eventually flow into the Lake Eyre basin, and depending on flow rates that can be achieved, diverted INTO the Murray Darling system as well. Imagine if we treated water like oil.
You suck water out of the artisan basin so that's taking water out of the engines cooling system by way of bores that increased the heat and drought etc the Bradfield scheme would replace and rebalance the basin now being the fact of all the flooding (crystal ball) so know mother nature laws of physics will step in and continue to flood to restore the basin. This being in terms of you went cheap (bores) and potentially were on the way to cooking the head of the engine.
If the Bradfield scheme had been built the basin might not be as low now and the floods would flow threw the areas of the scheme and potentially hold last longer water availability but because under the studies done the basins impact was not factored and that was not considered in the evaporation and availability there has been more drought,now it will likely be more flood and continuing drought based on world environmental changes think hot house there and Arad there.
Needed to put back what you took out and restore and maintain
A-the balance.
So how much was the cost now.
compare the market.
Just a stimples QUOTE😮