Warroolaba Creek from Tea Tree Road
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Tea Tree Road, with caveats.
The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.82248, 152.65752
That is Tea Tree Road, where the walk below begins — 23.8 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.
- Google Maps one link for a desktop browser, Android or iPhone
- Apple Maps the default on iPhone and Mac
- Your own map app hands the coordinate to an installed app, offline ones included
-27.82248, 152.65752
The record does not say what reaches the start The roads layer leaves trafficability unstated on most of its rows, and it is unstated here. That is an absence of evidence, not an ordinary road: treat the last stretch as unresearched.
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.
The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 1859537 | nothing mapped | 21.0 m | 205.6° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 1858017 | nothing mapped | 1024.7 m | 186.7° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 1859461 | nothing mapped | 629.7 m | 194.5° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 1864857 | nothing mapped | 56.2 m | 188.1° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 1864059 | nothing mapped | 1802.9 m | 188.5° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 1865503 | nothing mapped | 618.8 m | 100.3° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 1865579 | nothing mapped | 615.0 m | 99.8° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Road reserve | 1864097 | nothing mapped | 704.5 m | 136.7° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 9 | Road reserve | 1865807 | nothing mapped | 604.4 m | 212.3° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 10 | Road reserve | 1865731 | nothing mapped | 355.3 m | 277.5° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 11 | Road reserve | 1865313 | nothing mapped | 351.6 m | 100.9° E | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 2233493 | nothing mapped | 1204.5 m | 202.2° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 2228667 | nothing mapped | 20.3 m | 201.8° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 2229389 | nothing mapped | 262.2 m | 201.8° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 2228439 | nothing mapped | 51.3 m | 202.8° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 1895675 | nothing mapped | 513.7 m | 202.1° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 1896435 | nothing mapped | 23.3 m | 204.0° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 1896093 | nothing mapped | 370.7 m | 202.0° SSW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 1898183 | nothing mapped | 1267.4 m | 278.4° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 1899361 | nothing mapped | 293.7 m | 190.6° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 1899817 | nothing mapped | 294.0 m | 6.4° N | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 1898107 | nothing mapped | 1394.0 m | 279.4° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 1898221 | nothing mapped | 22.5 m | 280.4° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Road reserve | 1898031 | nothing mapped | 114.3 m | 290.1° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 25 | Watercourse bed | 1896663 | nothing mapped | 360.6 m | 27.0° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 26 | Watercourse bed | 1895713 | nothing mapped | 2073.4 m | 20.3° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 27 | Watercourse bed | 1891837 | nothing mapped | 1336.3 m | 276.3° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 1870785 | nothing mapped | 1258.9 m | 324.4° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 29 | Watercourse bed | 1153995 | nothing mapped | 1915.0 m | 7.1° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 30 | Watercourse bed | 1869569 | nothing mapped | 2010.1 m | 77.4° ENE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 31 | Watercourse bed | 1869607 | nothing mapped | 1814.2 m | 11.1° N | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 32 | Watercourse bed | 1838941 | nothing mapped | 30.2 m | 11.8° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 33 | Watercourse bed | 1836927 | nothing mapped | 391.1 m | 23.5° NNE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 34 | Watercourse bed | 1838523 | nothing mapped | 17.0 m | 317.4° NW | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 23822.8 m | Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class | |||
Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.
Caveats — what has to be said before walking this
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1898031 and 1895713 is 16.22 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1896663 and 1891837 is 1726.37 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1895713 and 1870785 is 1325.71 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1891837 and 1153995 is 1257.44 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1870785 and 1869569 is 1907.12 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1153995 and 1869607 is 1719.97 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1869569 and 1838941 is 1755.05 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1869607 and 1836927 is 28.83 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1838941 and 1838523 is 245.94 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 10 hours out and back
at least 5 hours there at least 5 hours back
160 m up and 165 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 165 m.
This walk is 10 hours out and back at a minimum, past the 8 hours this site plans a day walk against. It is published in full and it is not a day walk: plan it as an overnight trip, or turn around at a time you choose before you set off rather than at the fall.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 160.0 m
- Total descent
- 165.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 9.9% over 101.5 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 1338.6 m | 55.0 m |
| 1752.7 m | 60.0 m |
| 2019.3 m | 65.0 m |
| 2197.5 m | 70.0 m |
| 2352.7 m | 75.0 m |
| 2538.2 m | 80.0 m |
| 2652.4 m | 85.0 m |
| 2751.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 2862.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 3037.4 m | 95.0 m |
| 3084.0 m | 90.0 m |
| 3138.9 m | 85.0 m |
| 3195.8 m | 80.0 m |
| 3289.0 m | 75.0 m |
| 3309.8 m | 75.0 m |
| 3509.9 m | 80.0 m |
| 3785.3 m | 80.0 m |
| 3905.4 m | 75.0 m |
| 4189.9 m | 70.0 m |
| 4227.8 m | 70.0 m |
| 4420.7 m | 75.0 m |
| 4585.2 m | 75.0 m |
| 4652.1 m | 70.0 m |
| 5148.4 m | 70.0 m |
| 5482.9 m | 75.0 m |
| 5581.6 m | 80.0 m |
| 5656.4 m | 85.0 m |
| 5745.3 m | 90.0 m |
| 5902.8 m | 95.0 m |
| 6039.4 m | 100.0 m |
| 6164.3 m | 100.0 m |
| 6289.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 6381.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 6483.3 m | 90.0 m |
| 6570.8 m | 95.0 m |
| 6680.4 m | 100.0 m |
| 6847.4 m | 105.0 m |
| 6961.6 m | 105.0 m |
| 7104.5 m | 100.0 m |
| 7269.7 m | 95.0 m |
| 7508.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 7698.3 m | 85.0 m |
| 7892.8 m | 85.0 m |
| 8256.8 m | 90.0 m |
| 8576.8 m | 90.0 m |
| 8642.7 m | 85.0 m |
| 8706.0 m | 80.0 m |
| 8765.5 m | 75.0 m |
| 9166.0 m | 75.0 m |
| 9248.9 m | 75.0 m |
| 9328.2 m | 70.0 m |
| 9439.3 m | 65.0 m |
| 9644.0 m | 65.0 m |
| 9915.8 m | 70.0 m |
| 10110.0 m | 75.0 m |
| 10237.9 m | 80.0 m |
| 10476.3 m | 85.0 m |
| 10565.6 m | 90.0 m |
| 10699.6 m | 95.0 m |
| 10760.1 m | 100.0 m |
| 10822.1 m | 100.0 m |
| 10901.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 10917.9 m | 95.0 m |
| 10934.3 m | 95.0 m |
| 11041.6 m | 90.0 m |
| 11115.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 11181.7 m | 95.0 m |
| 11439.7 m | 95.0 m |
| 11573.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 11736.9 m | 85.0 m |
| 11818.9 m | 80.0 m |
| 11877.6 m | 75.0 m |
| 11963.6 m | 70.0 m |
| 12263.5 m | 65.0 m |
| 12291.9 m | 65.0 m |
| 12347.1 m | 65.0 m |
| 12473.0 m | 65.0 m |
| 12960.3 m | 65.0 m |
| 12979.2 m | 60.0 m |
| 12984.5 m | 60.0 m |
| 13022.6 m | 65.0 m |
| 13287.3 m | 65.0 m |
| 15049.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 15051.2 m | 60.0 m |
| 15773.9 m | 60.0 m |
| 15806.9 m | 60.0 m |
| 16384.1 m | 60.0 m |
| 16396.7 m | 60.0 m |
| 16864.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 17247.4 m | 60.0 m |
| 17635.4 m | 60.0 m |
| 17676.9 m | 60.0 m |
| 17689.6 m | 60.0 m |
| 17707.9 m | 55.0 m |
| 17717.1 m | 55.0 m |
| 17743.5 m | 60.0 m |
| 18044.9 m | 65.0 m |
| 18308.0 m | 70.0 m |
| 18664.6 m | 70.0 m |
| 18762.0 m | 65.0 m |
| 18870.2 m | 60.0 m |
| 19536.7 m | 55.0 m |
| 19571.6 m | 55.0 m |
| 19643.1 m | 55.0 m |
| 19677.2 m | 55.0 m |
| 19791.4 m | 55.0 m |
| 19819.7 m | 55.0 m |
| 20014.8 m | 55.0 m |
| 20128.0 m | 55.0 m |
| 20480.5 m | 55.0 m |
| 21474.0 m | 55.0 m |
| 21504.1 m | 55.0 m |
| 21523.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 21539.1 m | 50.0 m |
| 21565.0 m | 50.0 m |
| 21583.0 m | 50.0 m |
| 21632.7 m | 50.0 m |
| 21682.2 m | 50.0 m |
| 21863.0 m | 50.0 m |
| 21895.1 m | 50.0 m |
| 22267.1 m | 50.0 m |
| 22320.3 m | 50.0 m |
| 23258.6 m | 50.0 m |
| 23336.6 m | 50.0 m |
| 23343.4 m | 50.0 m |
| 23383.0 m | 50.0 m |
| 23529.8 m | 50.0 m |
| 23539.8 m | 50.0 m |
| 23551.5 m | 50.0 m |
| 23613.8 m | 50.0 m |
| 23793.3 m | 50.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 34 legs from Tea Tree Road, 23822.8 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1838523, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.
Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed
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Leg 1: 1859537 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
21.0 m at 205.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1859537 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 1858017 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1024.7 m at 186.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1858017 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 1859461 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
629.7 m at 194.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1859461 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 1864857 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
56.2 m at 188.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1864857 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 1864059 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1802.9 m at 188.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1864059 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 1865503 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
618.8 m at 100.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1865503 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 1865579 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
615.0 m at 99.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1865579 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 1864097 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
704.5 m at 136.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1864097 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 9: 1865807 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
604.4 m at 212.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1865807 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 10: 1865731 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
355.3 m at 277.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1865731 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 11: 1865313 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
351.6 m at 100.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1865313 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 12: 2233493 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1204.5 m at 202.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2233493 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 2228667 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.3 m at 201.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2228667 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 2229389 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
262.2 m at 201.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2229389 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 2228439 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
51.3 m at 202.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 2228439 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 1895675 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
513.7 m at 202.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1895675 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 1896435 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
23.3 m at 204.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1896435 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 1896093 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
370.7 m at 202.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1896093 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 1898183 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1267.4 m at 278.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1898183 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 1899361 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
293.7 m at 190.6°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1899361 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 1899817 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
294.0 m at 6.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1899817 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 1898107 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1394.0 m at 279.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1898107 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 1898221 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
22.5 m at 280.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1898221 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 1898031 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
114.3 m at 290.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1898031 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 25: 1896663 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
360.6 m at 27.0°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1896663 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 26: 1895713 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
2073.4 m at 20.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1895713 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 27: 1891837 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1336.3 m at 276.3°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1891837 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 28: 1870785 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1258.9 m at 324.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1870785 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 29: 1153995 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1915.0 m at 7.1°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1153995 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 30: 1869569 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
2010.1 m at 77.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1869569 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 31: 1869607 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
1814.2 m at 11.1°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1869607 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 32: 1838941 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
30.2 m at 11.8°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1838941 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 33: 1836927 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
391.1 m at 23.5°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1836927 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 34: 1838523 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
17.0 m at 317.4°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1838523 Grade statutory_inference
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Warroolaba Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1838523
- Coordinates
- -27.80977, 152.64352 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse