FCSF News
Lenthalls Dam and Great Sandy Straight News
By Paul
Dec 9, 2006, 05:18

Published in the Fraser Coast Chronicle 9th December 2006.

Wide Bay Water Corporation.

Public Notice Lenthalls Dam.

Wide Bay Water has commenced construction work to upgrade the recreational area and amenities.

For reasons of public safety from December 18th,
gates will be installed at the entrance road to secure the construction site.
Gates will be unlocked at 6.00 am and locked overnight from 4.00 pm.
Restrictions will remain in place until the recreational area is completed.

CAMPING IS NOT PERMITTED AT LENTHALLS DAM.

Visitors should also not that that there is a maximum boat speed of 4 knots on the dam and a motor size restriction of 6 HP.

Enquiries and further information:telephone Michael Lever on 4197 4110

Tim Waldron, Chief Executive Officer
Wide Bay Water Corporation
PO Box 5499, Hervey Bay QLD 4655.

At this stage I have no info on how thigs will be handled if someone is late getting back to the ramp for the 4pm deadline but will be looking into it.

I believe there is more to it than the safety reason given as there has been damage to landscaping and equipment and people seen speeding around the dam early and late.

To those that have broken down the barrier fencing and torn down the no camping signs in the past few weeks to camp we hope your satisfied now that you have ruined it for those that do the right thing.







GREAT SANDY MARINE PARK.

Today I received the revised maps for the Green Zones and the Designated Areas for the GSMP.[Great Smoke & Mirrors Park]




The new maps are much larger with larger print so they can be viewed without a magnifying glass.

I believe there are still a lot of grey areas as to how people are going to know if their in a green zone without a GPS.
There are so many angles on the green zones and go slow areas that you would need a degree in trigonometry
to work it out, maybe a clever ploy by the Beatie Govt for revenue raising from fisher persons.

With points like 300 meters from the highest astronomical tide and highest astronomical tide along 25 19 365s and so on will make it very hard [I should say near impossible] to decipher if you are in or out of the said zone.

I have been to the EPA web site and it has not been updated with the new co-ordinates I would have thought it would have been done at the same time as the maps but apparently not.

I believe this is just another Beattie Govt Blunder that has not been thought out very well by those involved!!! only time will tell.
Dam the Beattie Govt Not the Mary River!!!!

Paul






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