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| SMARTING: Shirley Patton, Fred and Virginia Wind and Dan Hickey of Parklane Place. |
PEOPLE living in Brisbane and Ipswich streets that were wrongly shown as having been under water in the flood zone map released on Monday by law firm Maurice Blackburn are now worried about the impact on their land values.
Residents of Parklane Place, Bulimba, one such street, said they had been surprised, to say the least.
"Nothing happened to us in the 2011 floods, even though this map says we should have been under water," resident Colleen Murphy, 44, said. "We lived here and should know."
Neighbour Fred Wind, 62, said: "It looked like a little pond of water at the bottom of our driveway and didn't even touch the grass."
Mr Wind and his wife Virginia claimed the law firm's map was misleading and said they would not join the class-action as they had suffered no damage.
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| Maps released by Maurice Blackburn lawyers ahead of their planned class action. The green regions show areas which should not have been flooded, according to their experts. |
"It was very devastating for the people that were inundated but we certainly weren't part of that terror."
Another resident, Shirley Patton, 52, who saw the effects of the 1974 floods, said inaccuracy could turn prospective buyers off making an offer in the suburb.
"Once you have been through the floods and have lost stuff you become particular about what areas to live in as you don't want it to happen again," she said.
Residents in Ipswich have also claimed they were incorrectly shown as being in the green and orange zones despite not having flooded.
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