Save Eungella secretary Mandy Tennent raised a number of concerns including the deforestation of around 1000ha of prime agricultural land, generational farms, rain forest and wildlife corridors, the impact on headwaters for both the Burdekin and Pioneer river catchments, the permanent change to the area’s hydrology, the impact on the area’s 27 threatened endemic species, the destruction of “families, communities and tourism”, the destruction of the platypuses’ “genetic diversity” through creek blockage from dam walls, and the prevention of water ingriss into the national park.
