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A Flood Levee for Rockhampton bit.ly/12Bju2p bit.ly/eA8V8J Floodproofing Rockhampton To build a levee bank to floodproof South Rockhampton is crucial. Keeping floods out of key areas would prevent large economic losses to industry, commerce, and families. In the major flood of January, 2011, Rockhampton was isolated for 2 weeks, with no road or rail traffic in or out, and the airport was closed. Whole sections of the city were inundated, affecting 1,000 residences and 350 businesses as well as public infrastructure and community facilities. According to CQUniversity research, the cost of this one flood event to the region’s economy was $35million, plus an additional $45.7 million to the broader Queensland economy. And it not only affected Rockhampton but also severed critical supply lines to and from 750,000 people in North Queensland. Floods will certainly come again. So if a solution is available, it ought to be employed. I think the proposal of a levee bank in South Rockhampton from the Rockhampton CBD to the Bruce Highway at Upper Dawson Road is a good one. Judging by the plans, this proposal would be money well spent, seeing that the cost to the regional council to floodproof the remainder of the Bruce Highway in Rockhampton is another $40 million, a cost that would be prevented. A levee would bring security to residents and businesses in the affected areas and remove the risk that some businesses would close, or leave, due to flood losses. Hastings Deering, for example, which employs more than 700, estimated their losses in the floods of 2011 & 2013 to be in excess of $20 million. Then there is insurance. That has become a weighty issue surrounding natural disasters, especially floods. Huge increases in premiums are affecting us all. Insurance companies have intimated that building a levee bank would bring down the cost of premiums. Suncorp has estimated that the construction of a flood levee by the Goondiwindi Council reduced insurance...
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:35:05 +0000

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