Toowoomba, Queensland Totally Explained

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Toowoomba (also known as 'The Garden City') is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an urban population of 95,265 The Clysedales dropped out of the Queensland Cup after the 2006 season due to financial difficulties and are no longer a feeder club for the Brisbane Broncos.

Notable current and former residents of Toowoomba

Geoffrey Rush (Academy Award Winning Actor)

Michael Brennan (Hockey player)

Ross Case (former tennis player)

Henry George Chauvel (First Australian Soldier to attain the rank of Lieutenant General, Australian Imperial Force)

Tim Cuddihy (Olympic archer)

Natalie Grinham and Rachel Grinham (top women's world squash ranking)

Tim Horan (Rugby Union player)

Nikki Hudson (Hockey player)

Gina Jeffreys (country singer)

Geraint Jones (English Cricketer)

Michael Katsidis (World Boxing Organization lightweight interim champion)

Darren Lange (freestyle swimmer)

Meshel Laurie (TV personality)

Jason Little (Rugby Union player)

Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy (Rugby Union player)

Glynis Nunn (heptathlete)

Will Power (Motor Racing Driver)

Cheryl Praeger (Mathematician)

Steve Price (Rugby League player)

Greg Ritchie (former Queensland and Australian cricketer)

Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis) (author best known for "On Our Selection")

Chloe Sims (Gymnast)

Karen Smith (Hockey player)

Peter Sterling (Rugby League player)

Johnathan Thurston (Rugby League player)

Michael Witt (Rugby League player)

Shane Withington (actor)

Media

Print

The Toowoomba Chronicle

Toowoomba Mail

Radio

4QS 747 (ABC Local Radio) (Offices & Studios located on Margaret Street)

4GR 864 (commercial) (Offices & Studios on Margaret St with C FM)

4WK 1359 (commercial)- Relay of 4WK Warwick.

4AK 1242 (commercial)- Based in Oakey, located west of Toowoomba CBD.

Radio 2 1620 (commercial)- Relay of Radio 2 network Sydney.

C FM 100.7 (commercial) - Named "C" fm rather than SEA due to Toowoomba's inland location, offices & studios on the corner of Margaret St and Burstow St, along with 4GR

Double 8FM (narrowcast) 88.0 - Non-community FM station featuring tourist information and the best 60s and 70s music, established in 1996. 88FM Toowoomba & 87.6FM Pittsworth

Triple J 104.1 - Also available 103.3 from Warwick and 107.7 from Brisbane

ABC Radio National 105.7

ABC Classic FM 107.3

Country FM 91.5 (narrowcast)

4GOD 92.9 The Light (Christian community)

93.7 (narrowcast - racing)

99.1 (narrowcast) Kids FM - exclusively kids music and stories

4DDB 102.7 (community)

River 949 94.9 - Ipswich based station broadcast into Toowoomba Note: Owners of CFM 100.7 and 4GR (Gold Radio Pty. Ltd) also own all 3 narrowcast stations in Toowoomba (91.5, 93.7 & 99.1 FM).

Television

Toowoomba is serviced by four commercial stations and one non-commercial station.

Seven Queensland

Southern Cross Ten

WIN Television

ABC TV

SBS TV News for Toowoomba is screened every weeknight at 6:00pm on WIN Television, broadcast live from the WIN studios in the Toowoomba suburb of Mt Lofty. On weekends, news is relayed from Channel 9, Brisbane.
Seven Queensland and Southern Cross Ten have a physical presence in Toowoomba, but local news programs don't exist on these channels. Instead, they carry news bulletins from Brisbane stations Channel 7 and Channel 10.
In addition to the local television stations, most Toowoomba households can receive Brisbane's three commercial TV stations, bringing the total number of free-to-air stations available in Toowoomba to eight.

Infrastructure

Transport

There are extensive suburban bus services operated by Garden City Sunbus throughout the city from around 9:00 am to around 5:30 pm Monday to Friday. A limited service runs Saturday. There are no Sunday services.
   There are frequent inter-city bus services between Toowoomba and Brisbane, and other centres.
   Toowoomba isn't included in TransLink, the Southeast Queensland integrated public transport system—a matter of some local contention.
   Toowoomba has a twice weekly rail service from Brisbane to Charleville, Queensland and return on QR's Westlander.
   There are no local rail or tram services, however the development of a suburban railway system has been flagged. Toowoomba is criss-crossed by several railway lines which are largely unused, or used for freight, and idle railway stations can be found in the suburbs (including Ballard, Drayton, Harlaxton and Harristown) dating to when these localities were separate centres. Proposals have centred on bringing these lines and stations into service, perhaps bolstered by additional lines and stations, however realisation is likely many years away.
   Toowoomba is serviced by Toowoomba Airport, which is used by the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the Darling Downs Aeroclub.

Health

Toowoomba is serviced by one public hospital, Toowoomba Base Hospital

, and two private hospitals - St. Andrew's Toowoomba Hospital

and St. Vincents Hospital

Water

Toowoomba's third water storage Cressbrook Dam was completed in 1983 and supplied water to Toowoomba in 1988. It has a full capacity of about 80,000 megalitres bringing total capacity of the three dams, Cooby, Perseverance, and Cressbrook, to 126,000 megalitres.
   The city also has underground supplies in fractured basalt, it sits above the eastern edge of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) and to the west underground water is available beneath agricultural alluvium.
   The average rainfall in the period 1998 to 2005 has been 30% below the long term average consistent with a prolonged drought and this trend continued through to spring of 2007. During March 2006 the surface water storage in the dams fell below 25% of full capacity, falling even more to 12.8% as of 10 March 2008 and Toowoomba has level 5 water restrictions while supplies are at such a low level. Groundwater has become a significant contributor to the city's water supply needs and now constitutes one third of the total volume of water treated for reticulated supply (160ML per week).
   Toowoomba City Council's Mayor Dianne Thorley has proposed a controversial potable reuse project under the Toowoomba Water Futures plan which will result in water reclaimed from the Wetalla Sewage Treatment Plant being returned to Cooby Dam to provide 25% of the potable water supply for Toowoomba. Other water supply options include importing water from Oakey Creek Groundwater Management Area (average TDS = 1660 mg/L), importing water from Condamine Groundwater Management Area (Average TDS = 740 mg/L), and water from coal steam gas production (TDS = 1200-4300 mg/L).
   One of the difficulties with the Water Futures proposal was that it relied on Acland Coal, a subsidiary of New Hope Corporation, taking the reverse osmosis waste stream. However, they'd never agreed to this. Without their involvement, of evaporation ponds, costing at least an additional $70 million, would have been required. This amount wasn't included in Council's budget for the Water Futures project. Jondaryan Shire Council is now negotiating with New Hope Corporation to provide water from the Oakey bore fields to Acland Coal.
   On 29 July 2006 Toowoomba City Council conducted a poll of Toowoomba residents on the proposal to use this multi-barrier filtration system for filtering sewage for drinking purposes. The poll question was: "Do you support the addition of purified recycled water to Toowoomba’s water supply via Cooby Dam as proposed by Water Futures – Toowoomba?” 38% of voters supported the proposal and 62% opposed.
   In 2007, the Toowoomba City Council commenced a bore drilling program to augment the dwindling dam supplies and constructed several subartesian bores across the city and one artesian bore at Wetalla in the city's north. Many of the subartesian bores provided potable water with a reliable yield and have been developed into production however the artesian bore's water quality was very poor, prohibiting development as a potable source. This was an expensive setback for the city as the cost was over A$2 million for drilling to over 700 metres. Drilling of another artesian bore has commenced and in January 2008, yield testing had been stalled due to the unavailability of appropriate pumping equipment.
   Also in 2007, the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water initiated a subartesian drilling program centred on Toowoomba to expand its network of groundwater monitoring stations in the Main Range Volcanics. With the increased demand for groundwater in the area from council, commercial and urban users, more information was required to effectively manage the resource whereas previously the location and density of monitoring stations wouldn't provide enough data.

Sister cities

Wanganui, New Zealand

Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan - Sister city agreement concluded in 1991

Paju, Republic of Korea

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