Townsville in crisis. 8.30 is the danger time.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Record rainfall for Townsville. This is like a few years ago when Wivenhoe dam was overtopping and they had to flood Brisbane or it could have collapsed.

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Wivenhoe was built to be a flood mitigation dam. Then came the bad drought and Brisbane was on serious water restrictions so it became a water storage dam after the drought broke. "No worries, mate. We've had our big flood. No need to keep space in the dam for another." So, 37 years later along comes another "one in 100 years flood."

A senior bureaucrat in the old Irrigation and Water Supply Commission told me at a heavy plant seminar that at least two dams in Qld. were built against the Dept's advice. These dams were built not to catch water but to catch votes in marginal electorates.

A year's rainfall in a week is certainly extreme.

A meeting is on this wednesday at Tinaroo for landowners affected by a proposal to raise the dam wall to increase capacity by 10%. I can only see positives for the area but predict some tree hugging group will come up with a study to say it will impact on the breeding grounds of the 3 toed toad or similar and it will be shelved:bat:


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Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

A meeting is on this wednesday at Tinaroo for landowners affected by a proposal to raise the dam wall to increase capacity by 10%. I can only see positives for the area but predict some tree hugging group will come up with a study to say it will impact on the breeding grounds of the 3 toed toad or similar and it will be shelved:bat:


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I'm all for it as long as the sticky date pudding will still be available at the café. [smilebigeye]

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Brownsville. [bigwhistle]

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Just heard a local on the news refer to it as Drownsville🙄

Can only hope the worst is over.....

Bit damp up there atm??

How are you faairing in Doomadgee, Paul ?

Some photographs. Already rumblings about houses built on what is essentially a flood plain. Emergency services/ Army have done a magnificent job, so far only two people missing, and this from a flood where people have been rescued from the roofs of high set houses, in some areas.

In pictures: How Townsville's one-in-100 year flood crisis unfolded

I did want to know how a dam can get to 200%, and still be safe. interesting.

Explainer: How can the Ross River Dam be over 200 per cent capacity?

In a crisis, we stick together.

'Hero' neighbour takes in 60 stranded people amid Townsville flood crisis