The Capalaba Greyhound track is totally submerged in water with the major flooding event in Brisbane taking hold

In a heart-breaking scenario, Capalaba Greyhound Racing staff fear a repeat of the devastating 2022 floods that destroyed their club.

Flooding at Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club on Sunday morning.

In a heart-breaking scenario, Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club (CGRC) officials fear a repeat of the devastating 2022 floods that destroyed their club.

Ex-cyclone Alfred has caused chaos across all three codes of the racing industry in South-East Queensland and northern NSW, but few have copped it worse than the Capalaba greyhound track, which was completely under water on Sunday.

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The only saving grace for club staff was that they had plenty of time to prepare for the damage after Alfred’s arrival on Saturday brought gale-force winds up to 100km/hr and relentless rain that would not ease until Monday.

“We’re fearful that the flood waters will end up being the same height as 2022,” club manager Erin Cameron told Racenet on Sunday morning.

“Already the water is maybe 400mm from the top of the boxes and that was four hours ago.

“It has just not stopped raining. Our dam is at 140 per cent (capacity) and in 2022, it was 160 per cent when our whole club went under water, two metres over our heads.

“We’ll wait until Wednesday when we can actually enter the venue and then start the process of cleaning it all up.”

The Capalaba flooding event in 2022

Cameron said it took the club three months to recover in 2022 when devastating floods caused $300,000 worth of damage to track electronics, switchboards and property.

In 2023, Racing Queensland delivered a $160,000 project to replace 119 kennels that were damaged three years ago.

Fortunately this week, club staff were well prepared to handle the natural disaster.

“When we rebuilt the club we made sure everything was at a higher height,” Cameron said.

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“This time we got everything out of the venue and up even higher because before 2022, we’d never had a flood higher than a metre.

“But 2022 absolutely rocked us. The water was well over our heads in the venue so this time we took everything out. My house is filled with all the machinery.”

Albion Park greyhounds deputy chief executive Jodie Pagan said her club was “also in a fair amount of deep water, both literally and figuratively” in a notoriously flood-prone area.

“At this stage the track has not flooded but there is localised flooding around the area,” she said on Sunday afternoon as heavy rain continued to fall.

Drone shot of Albion Park harness racing - Photo: DroneIt Group.

“We decommissioned the site on Wednesday to ensure that if there was flooding then all the equipment would be OK.

“It will take a day of no rain to recommission the site ready for racing so at this stage we’re just holding tight and getting our floaties ready.”

Meanwhile, the next step for Capalaba Greyhound Club staff will be the major clean-up in the hope of getting back to business as soon as possible.

“It’ll be all hands on deck from Wednesday,” Cameron said.

“Last time we had club staff and a few trainers help out but the trainers have their own issues in their kennels.

“It’s just clearing all the mud. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as 2022, which was unbelievably massive.”

Originally published as The Capalaba Greyhound track is totally submerged in water with the major flooding event in Brisbane taking hold