VAST INLAND SEA.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 21, 15 March 1918, Page 4

VAST INLAND SEA.

A great irrigation scheme is nearing completion in the Rivorina district of New South Wales. In another 12 months or so the whole of the flow of the Murrumbidgeo river will be harnessed and made available for the purpose of immense culture. The great Burinjuck . dam has already piled up the Murrumbidgee waters into an immense inland sea; miles and miles of irrigation channels are conducting them on to fruitful ; soils, and in their wake (all within the ipast few years) prosperous townships lof irrigation settlers have been dotted ! over the countryside. But the Burin- , juck dam is hardly finished. There is ;yet a deal of masonry and upper reinforced concrete to lay in place, and it iis expected that 18 months will elapse I before it will be able to deal, as planned, with the whole of the Murrumbid:gee catchment. When it does, the vast inland sea it is forming will carry a stupendous amount of water—roughly 133,000,000,000 cubic feet, or a greater volume than is contained in Sydney harbour.