{"id":322409,"date":"2022-08-05T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=322409"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:04:20","slug":"dam-festival-postponed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2022\/08\/05\/dam-festival-postponed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Festival Postponed Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 5, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Festival of the Dams fishing competition, sponsored by the South Burnett Regional Council, has been postponed again.<\/p>\n

The event was to be held on August 13-14 at Boondooma Dam and September 10-11 at Bjelke-Petersen Dam.<\/p>\n

But due to the latest rain and inflows still coming into the dams, organisers have made the difficult decision to postpone the competitions again.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Bjelke-Petersen Dam was at 101.77 per cent capacity; and Boondooma Dam at 100.72 per cent.<\/p>\n

Fishing at both dams is extremely challenging at present due to the unsettled water conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

New dates for the festival will be advised.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe festival is definitely not cancelled, just postponed,” Fishing Freshwater spokesperson Matthew Mott said.<\/p>\n

“We are waiting for Mother Nature to do her thing and then the Festival will be back bigger and better than ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want thousands of people to come to the South Burnett and have a great time and catch a lot of fish – the timing just has to be right.\u201d<\/p>\n