Once a bustling township with a working sawmill, Campbellville disappeared. All that now remains are some graves in Beerburrum forest, writes Dot Whittington.
A 2000sq m, five-bedroom property, more castle than home, which was painstakingly built over one-and-a-half years on top of an old avocado orchard has come on the market for the first time.
This year it only took a week to get that 400 (capacity). He said 230 had already signed up for the 100km. We didn t hit the full 300 (last year) but I suspect this year we will if you look at the numbers now, he said. Standring was ecstatic with the sell out rush and said wait lists for the shorter distances were pretty full as well . While the Blackall 100 was held last year, he believed many had been starved of competition due to COVID-19 restrictions and didn t want to miss out. We ve gradually, because it s in its eighth year, been building in numbers each year, he said.
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A team of contractors has completed a risky underground mission to remove more than 60 tonnes of unstable rocks which threatened to damage one of the Coast’s most important pipelines.
Working through harsh conditions in a pitch black tunnel, contractors manually removed more than 60 metric tonnes of rock and soil from an underground tunnel, moving half a tonne at a time.
The 2.5-kilometre tunnel runs beneath the Blackall Range and houses a pipeline which transports water from Baroon Pocket Dam to the Landers Shute Water Treatment Plant in Palmwoods.
The pipeline, which is a critical component in southeast Queensland’s water grid, has the ability to transport 180 megalitres to the treatment plant.