royal comission, page-2

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    Um :

    1. we had way more rainfall than they did in 1974, yet the river levels were 1m lower than 1974

    2. we have a lot more population now and a lot more development in low lying areas

    Wivenhoe is a water storage AND flood mitigation dam.

    Mitigation does not mean prevention.
 
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