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From: James Hedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: UPDATE ON HUGH IN OZ?
Hi James
Some places around Albury (north and east) had a quite good
season last year - east of the Hume highway was like eden last october - so
they should have good water on farm - Hume dam is an irrigation storage and
is leaking out the tap at the bottom for the purpose of keeping some flow in
the murray river . The others you would have seen with good water levels up
in the mountains are the Snowy hydro storages Geehi, Tooma. Tumut Pond,
Talbingo etc (you probably could have seen Eucumbene and the others too from
the plane) - these storages are for the purpose of holding and delivering
water for hydro power generation - only when the power authorities can no
longer hold it does this water get into irrigation storage like Hume dam,
and Blowering Dam. Some hydro water was offered to farmers late last year at
the generation cost (around 180+ dollars per megalitre) but that is not
economically feasible for most crops.
I think the lack of greenery is likely due to the rapid decline in water
levels and the fact that the soil (if you could call it that has been so
long under water and eroded to nothingness by wave action.
The country east and north of Albury is renowned as some of the best cattle
grazing country in eastern Australia - home to many of the major beef stud
breeding operations and sought after by people with big money to spend - its
right up there with the victorian western districts as far as price per head
of stock carried.
When it finally rains that country will kick into gear real good.
On a different tack I was contacted by a fellow yesterday who is in a group
building a cloudbuster - west of me - I had not thought about this much but
if there is one in that town then based on population there would be five of
them around Albury - scary hey! I am aiming to meet these guys and attempt
to dissuade them from using the thing by trying to show some of what was at
Albury. The lady at Albury who talked so agitatedly about 'chemtrails' also
worried me - I saw the vapour trail she was on about in the sky early that
morning and all I saw was a jet vapour trail same as I have been looking at
since I was a kid and it was a novelty to see one - I've always seen one
that hangs in the sky for a while as a sign of upper level moisture or cold
air masses. Too many people jumping at shadows I think, if we start pointing
Reich style cannons at every jet trail in the sky we will have untold damage
to repair.
My 2c's worth anyway
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
,
> as we were heading out to catch the
> plane home I noticed that in the next valley over, all the dams were full,
> even although there was only 5% in the Hume Dam. Seems as if it is leaking
> out from the weir
>. There isn't green grass even on the edges of the dams.
> The city of Albury cuts a dragon line that runs from Mount Elephant in the
> west and Table Top Mountain near Albury.
