Water Harvesting
Maroon Dam subverts Burnnett Creek, and supplies water to the Beaudesert Shire. Maroon is managed by SunWater and covers approximately 106 km². Several projects are underway, to supply water to the Queensland government's Southern Regional Pipeline. The Bromelton off-stream storage facility is currently under construction on the Logan River, outside Beaudesert, as is the Cedar Grove Weir, near Jimboomba.
On 4 July 2006, the Queensland Government decided against the construction of a Logan River dam at Tilley's Bridge in Rathdowney, due to mounting public pressure and high road diversion costs. Instead, the Wyaralong Dam was proposed on Teviot Brook near Boonah, which will inundate 15 properties instead of the 100 for the Tilley's Bridge site.
The Tilley's Bridge dam, if it had been approved, would have inundated the area of land between Tilley's Bridge, just to the south of Rathdowney, and Bigriggan Camping Reserve, some 8 km west, covering a significant section of the Boonah-Rathdowney Road.
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