Premium Content Subscriber only Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett has used his first day back in state parliament to bring Paradise Dam back into the limelight. The local member submitted a Question on Notice asking Water Minister Glen Butcher to commit to repairing, replacing, or restoring Paradise Dam to its full capacity as a matter of urgency. Mr Bennett said Burnett growers needed certainty. "Sunwater's own forecasts predict Paradise Dam's capacity could be as critically low as 8 per cent by June 2021 without significant rainfall," he said. "This will leave growers in the Burnett with no means of irrigating sugarcane, macadamias, mangoes and avocados and small crops.