The Bradfield Scheme was devised by Dr. John Bradfield an Australian engineer, and involved the diverting of water from the upper reaches of the Johnson, Tully, Herbert, Burdekin and Flinders rivers (all Queensland coastal rivers) into the Thompson river on the other side of the Great Dividing Range creating a climate change and rainfall throughout inland Australia.
Objections to the scheme involve:
The cost
The extreme evaporation rate in the interior
Coastal developments now use much more water than earlier leaving a smaller surplus to divert
Environmentalists objecting to any changes
External Reference
A modified scheme is strongly supported on this site by an independent candidate at the last Australian senate election in Queensland: http://www.johnston-independent.com/bradfield_scheme.html
Born in Sandgate, Queensland, the youngest son of John Edward Bradfield and Maria Crew.
In 1924 Bradfield received the first doctorate of science in engineering at the University of Sydney for his thesis on electric railways and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
In later years he developed the BradfieldScheme for diverting some coastal rivers of Queensland onto the western side of the Great Dividing Range.
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