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Originally Posted by troypiggo
We just got power back on here last night. I can't believe what I'm reading here.
Have the people here proposing a levee ever been to Brisbane, been up and down the river?
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Many times. Flood mittigation would be no simple exercise, but I still maintain critical infrastructure and areas could be protected.
The Yanks (god bless 'em) have been working on the problem with a far more massive system for 130+ years. To say it doesn't work there indicates to me you haven't been there...the scale of engineering is truly impressive (an ethos seeming lost in Oz since completion of the Snowy Scheme)
That is not to say they got it 100% right as there have been significant unintended environmental impacts....which are being corrected...and one would think we could learn from their efforts as well as errors.
I don't accept the argument that throwing ones hands up and saying its in the lap of the gods.
Levees, floodways & wing dams can and do work. The Wivenhoe Dam clearly has had a mittigating effect during these recent floods...but more needs to be done