Reply With QuoteA year's rainfall in a week is certainly extreme.
Swaggie
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."Originally Posted by DiscoMick
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.
URSUSMAJOR
A year's rainfall in a week is certainly extreme.
Wizard
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
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I'm all for it as long as the sticky date pudding will still be available at the café.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
AM
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
Wizard
SubscriberJust heard a local on the news refer to it as Drownsville🙄Brownsville.
Can only hope the worst is over.....
Paul.
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Bit damp up there atm??
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How are you faairing in Doomadgee, Paul ?
If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
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SubscriberSome 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’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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SubscriberI 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?
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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SubscriberIn a crisis, we stick together.
'Hero' neighbour takes in 60 stranded people amid Townsville flood crisis
I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food
A bookshop is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking
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