Tully River
From its headwaters in the Cardwell Range, the Tully River flows generally north through Djirbalngan Country, passing through Lake Koombooloomba — the dam that supplies water to the Koombooloomba and Kareeya Hydro Power Stations — and over the Tully Falls near Ravenshoe before a U-turn takes it through the Tully Gorge to discharge into the Coral Sea at Tully Heads.
Five tributaries join the river, which was named after Queensland Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully over its 133-kilometre course.
The Bradfield Scheme, devised by Queensland-born civil engineer Dr John Bradfield (1867–1943), who also designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Brisbane's Story Bridge, involved diverting wet season rainfall in the upper catchments of the Tully, Herbert and Burdekin rivers through a system of large pipes, tunnels, and dams intor the Thomson River on the Great Dividing Range's western side to provide irrigation for agricultural land and drought-proof much of southwestern Queensland and large areas of South Australia. The Scheme, proposed in 1938 awas abandoned in 1947.
Sources:
Google Maps (Location, directions and distances — my measurements)
Wikipedia: Bradfield Scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Scheme
Wikipedia: Tully River: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully_River
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