‘If you take action and we flood, we all can accept at least we did everything we could. On a Hawkesbury flood online support group page, one man shared a message for locals to take to their MPs. With the possibility of more flooding to come in Spring, they have demanded authorities commit to a plan to strategically lower the dam’s levels when forecasts indicate flooding is possible to prevent a repeat of the chaos they’ve experienced. Views like this are what people who live in the Hawkesbury-Nepean valley love The plan to raise the dam wall is not welcomed by locals, many of whom fear a dam with a greater capacity could produce even worse flooding if the water had to be released back into river systems. The NSW government favours a $1.6billion project to raise the height of the Warragamba Dam wall to reduce flooding over a buyback scheme, which its modelling estimated could cost $5.2billion. ‘Now my nine-year-old thinks floods are normal.’ Then a flood came, and we thought, “that’s that”. ‘We thought we probably wouldn’t see a flood in our life, and we loved the house. Ms Saint said when she and Andrew bought their home in 2017, they asked around and were told the area last flooded in 1978 – 50 years earlier. ‘We would love some kind of buyback scheme.’ ‘The government should never have built these houses,’ she said. Jodie Saint says the couple wants to see a government buy-back scheme made available for people affected as they are. ‘Anyway, what are we going to say in the online ad? Underwater property for sale?’ ‘But it’s a moral issue too, what unsuspecting family would we be putting through the same thing we’ve been through? ‘It’s heartbreaking, we were getting close to the point where we could sell it, but not now,’ Mr Ott said. Their home flooded again, for the third time this year. Jodie, a disability support worker, and Andrew, a metal fabricator, spent $40,000 fixing up their home after floods in March when heavy rain in early July led to Warragamba Dam spilling thousands of gigalitres of water into the valley. The plan to to raise the dam wall would introduce flood management processes into the way the dam is run. It is understood the dam was built as a water supply and has no flood mitigation procedures at all. However a statement from WaterNSW said: ‘Releasing water from Warragamba Dam early to mitigate downstream flooding is currently not authorised and would potentially increase flood risk and damage.’
With the possibility of more flooding to come in spring they have demanded authorities lower the levels of Warragamba Dam to prevent further chaos. The local partly blamed the floods on the strategic release of the Warragamba Dam to prevent it overflowing, but which then sends flood water crashing downstream into the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley
‘When it’s over, we’ll sit with here with a wine on our jetskis and keep making great new memories.’ ‘A lot of friends said, “I guess you’re leaving now? I said, “no, why would we do that?” Mrs Brennan told Daily Mail Australia.
HEAVY RAIN MADISON NUDE FULL
Like many locals, Brennan believes lowering the level of the dam to about 70 per cent full when heavy rain is forecast will stop the need for extra water being released from the dam back into rivers after days of rain.īecause their home is up a road, it escaped the water, but the family lost two cabins, a gazebo, a car and a boat.īut she says the family won’t be leaving. Residents of the bowl-like Hawkesbury Nepean valley faced life-threatening flood conditions at the start of July, with 50,000 people placed under evacuation ordersĭawnmarie Brennan, a Canadian ex-pat who met her husband as a backpacker while he was riding a motorbike on the Nullarbor plain, wants the dam levels lowered to stop another repeat of damage from the third flood she’s experienced in 18 months.
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