Residents call for better dam management in Sydney flood disaster

Samantha Hutchinson and Georgie Moore

Jul 5, 2022 – 6.21pm

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Flood-stricken Hawkesbury residents have urged the NSW government to rethink its management of the Warragamba Dam, claiming dam spills timed for heavy rain have hit communities with a flooding “double whammy”.

A natural disaster was declared across more than 20 local government areas in NSW after four days of heavy rains triggered flooding and left more than 50,000 residents without power and under evacuation orders and warnings.

Samantha Hutchinson is the AFR's National Reporter. Most recently, she was CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before that, she covered Victorian and NSW politics and business for The Australian, the AFR and BRW Magazine.

Georgie Moore is a breaking news reporter with The Australian Financial Review based in Parliament House, Canberra.