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Found this for you today malaga and it looks as if Taroom could be in for a surch in property prices.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-24/authority-outlines-endangered-snail-plan-for-14b-dam/3968622?section=qld



Authority outlines endangered snails plan for $1.4b dam

By Fidelis Rego

Posted April 24, 2012 09:19:22


SunWater says it will move a colony of endangered snails from the site of the proposed Nathan Dam in southern inland Queensland.

The bulk water retailer has released an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the project that has been on the drawing board for 80 years.

SunWater wants to build a $1.4 billion dam on the Dawson River, north of Wandoan, north-west of Toowoomba.

The Nathan Dam project has been proposed for decades but in 2006 the then-Beattie Labor government committed $120 million to fast-tracking the design and preliminary work.

SunWater wants to build an 888 gigalitre storage about 35 kilometres north-east of Taroom, and a pipeline to Dalby to supply mining operations in the Surat Basin.

However in its EIS, SunWater says it has found more than 30,000 critically endangered Boggamoss snails in the project area.

SunWater says the water storage area will affect a colony of about 350 snails but they will be moved to a new location.

It also plans to build a turtleway into the dam wall to help the white-throated snapping turtle flourish.

Sunwater says if the project is approved, construction would start next year and the dam would be commissioned in 2016.

Submissions on the EIS close in June.