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While we all…. Today marks a year since flooding devastated south-east Queensland. Research has shown that some of the worst effects of the floods were due to poor land-use planning. Brisbane's main water supply, Wivenhoe Dam, is at just 37 per cent capacity, having largely missed out on the rainfall that saturated catchments around the region.
Seqwater spokesman Chris Owen said that was only a rise of about 1 per cent in storage capacity over the past week. After the so-called "Millennium drought" that ended in , SEQ water connected 12 key dams across south-east Queensland to shore up water supplies.
Before the rain, Brisbane was on course for water restrictions by about September or October, when the levels were expected to drop below 50 per cent, but downpours have bought extra time. Water authorities hope there are enough supplies to avoid restrictions until the next "wet season" at the end of the year. Mr Owen said the recent rain had brought another benefit — people's water consumption temporarily dropped during the downpour. Seqwater is encouraging people to aim for about litres of water use per person, per day.
Currently, the average water use in south-east Queensland is litres per day, about 5 litres less than the average one week ago. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
Over 28 per cent of the Queensland rail network was left twisted and displaced. Affected areas. On 25 December , Cyclone Tasha crossed the northern Queensland coast and brought disaster to every river system south of the Tropic of Capricorn, and as far west as Longreach and Charleville.
On 10 January , a wall of water swept through Toowoomba, then travelled west, flooding Oakey, Dalby, Chinchilla and Condamine for a second time. Mr Geddes described Tuesday night's weather as "a real bloody whiz banger," with plenty of lightning and thunder.
He said multiple storms topped up dams on their property kilometres north of Rockhampton. We get 30 millimetres here and 20 millimetres there, but not enough to run a lot of water. But this put water in dams. More than 1, kilometres inland at Bedourie in the Shire of Diamantina, there were unexpected water hazards on the golf course.
Local resident Trevor Stewart said it was a welcome cool change in the far west of the state. Going from 40 degrees last week to around 27 now and I think we're even going to get down to 23 or something so in November that's fantastic," he said.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. Key points: The bureau says there will be no reprieve in wild weather for parts of the state Temperatures are expected to dip up to 10 degrees below the November average in parts Consistent rainfall means the risk of flooding will continue into next week.
Loading form Posted Yesterday at pm Wed 10 Nov at pm , updated 17h ago 17 hours ago Thu 11 Nov at am. Queensland set for a drenching over the coming days. More on:.
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