When rain bucketed down in Townsville recently, some of it even over the city's catchment area , the flow down Ross River caused water weed to mass causing the abandonment of a rowing regatta , which went unnoticed by the media. News tip for local scribes : what is Townsville City Council going to do to clear the waterway, the imported weed cutter seems not to have overcome the problem ? And now that Magnetic Island is looking green and fresh and wattle coming out after also copping some of the rain , despite a poor wet in the dry tropics , the powers that be have announced a start to burning off at Horseshoe Bay .
