TOOK a quick drive out to Nundle the other day and a glance over Chaffey Dam, where there is work happening to improve its water carrying capacity.
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Almost everybody benefits from a dam and this country needs more of them for agriculture, recreation, business and for human consumption.
A thought occurred to me as we drove past Chaffey, seeing as they are lifting the height to store more water: Why don’t they lower the bottom?
Chaffey has never been a deep dam and at the moment, a lot of the bottom is accessible to earthmoving machinery.
The soil would be hugely fertile, as most of it would be topsoil from the hills of gold.
Who knows, it’s probably full of alluvial gold dust or maybe even the odd nugget.
Most farmers and graziers call a bulldozer when they are in drought and get their dams cleaned out.
The loam that lays at the bottom of Chaffey could be utilised somehow to enrich something.
John Coleman
Limbri