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| Could this have been prevented? Brisbane River Flood at Goodna 12 January 2011 looking west from near the corner of Brisbane Road and Queen Street. |
THE entire January 2011 Brisbane River flood that inundated thousands of properties and inflicted a multi-billion-dollar damage bill would have been contained in Wivenhoe Dam if it had been operated in prudent and strict accordance with its manual, according to new analysis.
Andrew Dragun, an academic expert on water management, said yesterday his newly completed study of the dam's performance showed that the dam's operator, SEQWater, was too slow to make releases of water, then made such huge releases that it caused most of the flood.
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