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A regional Central Queensland school was completely run dry on Monday, relying on community members from surrounding towns to urgently transport bottles of water purchased at supermarkets to the small school.
It is understood Valkyrie State School, about 50km south of Nebo on the Fitzroy Developmental Road, had to have bottled water and a water truck sent in on Monday morning for drinking water and amenities.
Although it seems this isnât the first time the water supply issue has occurred.
Valkyrie State School doesnât have a permanent water supply and relies on rain and numerous rainwater storage tanks on the school grounds.
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The $367.2 million Rookwood Weir project reached a significant milestone on Friday, with the announcement in-river construction was underway.
Rookwood Weir is being built on the Fitzroy River, 66 kilometres southwest of Rockhampton.
Once complete, the more than 16-metre high weir would enable a transition to higher value agricultural land use and facilitate new industrial business opportunities in the region.
The 18-metre high concrete Riverslea Bridge upgrade was also nearly complete.
The upgrade would replace the existing crossing with a single 3.5-metre wide road lane, connecting the approaches to the bridge with the existing road, including passing bays at both ends, and demolishing the existing culvert crossing.
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A LIBERAL senator has hatched a radical plan to get more water projects approved across Australia, but the idea involves scrapping a whole level of government. Queensland Senator Gerard Rennick visited councils from the Far North down to Central Queensland in a bid find out what was standing in the way of major water developments. Mr Rennick believes major projects like Hells Gates dam, reservoirs and flood mitigation would be built if the regulatory process was eased. The senator believes the Queensland government is regulating water projects out of existence and getting in the way of local councils plans to strengthen the state s water security.