BRILLIANT WATER – 2 KLM FRONTAGE TO LOCKYER CREEK WITH 148 MEG WATER LICENCE PLUS 8 IRRIGATION BORES AND 60 Meg Dam.

Currently run as a dairy farm but very suitable for small cropping or cattle fattening.

Location: 33 Kavanagh Road Mount Tarampa. Approximately 30km East of Gatton, 68km east of Toowoomba and 12km west of Lowood.
Area: 143.33ha (354 acres) Tenure: Freehold in 6 titles
Main Centres: Lowood, Gatton
Country: The country has frontage to Lockyer Creek for the entire length of the S.W. boundary with excellent soft black loam soils along the creek with heavier black soil flats merging with easy sloping sandy loam ridge becoming steeper with black soil and alluvial stone on the slopes of Mount Tarampa in the extreme eastern corner.
Cultivation: Approx 85 ha (210ac) of the creek flats is developed irrigated cultivation with underground mains watered with a centre pivot (70 ac) and a travelling irrigator. The cultivation is currently under well established pasture.
Grain storage: 1 x 75 tonne sherwell elevated steel silo with aerator on a concrete base. 1 x 55 tonne webster elevated steel silo with aerator on a concrete base. Total storage is 130 tonnes.
Sheds: 30m x 12m (100′ x 40′) steel framed machinery shed enclosed on three sides with 3 phase power with 50% concrete floor. 27m x 14m (60′ x 30′) timber framed machinery shed enclosed on the back and partial sides, 12m x 12m (40′ x 40′) Hay Shed, workshop timber frame fully enclosed without concrete floor and three phase power, old dairy, stable, operational Bessa Block Dairy.
Grazing Area: Approximately 140 acres is naturally pastured sloping grazing country areas of which have been cultivated in the past. Approximately 28ha (70 ac) can now be established with pastures and irrigated by solid set irrigators from the dam.
Improved Pasture: The creek flats has been established with pastures including Paspalum, White Clover, Natural Clover in season, Rye grass grown annually and Rhoades grass.
Yards: Dairy Yards
Stock Handling Facilities: Undercover crush with head bale
Water: 8 Irrigation bores of which 5 are equipped, 2 dams
Dams and Size: Approximately 60 Meg dam and stock dam
Bores/Equipment/Capacity: 1 river bore equipped with electric motor and turbine pump, 3 bores equipped with submersible pumps, 1 bore equipped with pressure unit supplying domestic and stock required, 3 bores not equipped, all bores are registered and capable of 10,000 to 15,000GPH.
Stock Watering Facilities: Troughs in most paddocks, 1 walk in stock dam
Fencing Boundary: The boundary is in generally fair to good stock proof condition.
Fencing Internal: Some fixed fencing but majority electric for ease of grazing
Homestead: Lowset 3 bedroom home with large open kitchen and lounge room set in established trees and gardens.
Other accommodation: Old cottage which is not used.
Other structural improvements: 85m of feed trough with concrete apron on each side capable of feeding 200 dairy cows.
Irrigation: Approximately 200 acres is under irrigated pastures. A valley 5 section pivot irrigator covers 28ha (70ac) plus a 96 metre boom travelling irrigator covers the rest of the river country.
Underground mains of 6″ and 4″ supply water from bores and dam. The 60 meg dam has good catchment and can be filled from the bores and is equipped with 2 x 40hp electric motors and pumps to supply the irrigators and also the newly laid mains for a fixed irrigation system on the slopes.
Licences: 148 meg licence for Atkinson dam water supplied via blind gully and pumped from Lockyer Creek. This is not equipped or used but current. All bores are registered but are not metered.
Plant: A full plant can be negotiated
Stock: A full dairy herd can be negotiated
Carrying Capacity: Currently milking 178 cows plus 102 dry cows, 55 weaners and 66 calves plus bulls.