9 July

The equivalent of ‘vaccines will end the pandemic’, for floods, is ‘levees and higher dam walls will stop floods’. They won’t, look at Lismore. Its flood levees are nearly 11 metres high. It makes no difference for a large flood. The NSW Governent is also still banging on about raising the dam wall at Warragamba. They’ve been told (as Lismore were told) by engineers this won’t work and will just lead to more flood damage, with the houses property developers want to build on the flood plains. As always property developers are running the State.