Engineer warned of danger from dam
BRISBANE City Council’s top flood engineer recommended a decade ago that Wivenhoe Dam be operated differently as a bigger buffer against flooding.
Hedley Thomas
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Dam in sights of flood inquiry
PREMIER Anna Bligh yesterday bowed to pressure to set up an inquiry with the powers of a royal commission, as the death toll from the flooding hit 20.
Water releases too low: engineer
MORE serious questions about Wivenhoe Dam were raised yesterday by a senior engineer who claims the Brisbane River flooding was avoidable.
Council buyback, planning split locals
CRAIG Gehrke should be celebrating.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t
HOW much did releasing huge volumes of water contribute to the catastrophe?
Bligh’s ‘tough people’ owed a tough inquiry
IT is imperative that our political leaders go the right way and call a far-reaching judicial inquiry into the floods.
‘Someone’s in strife, you go to them’
IN THE gentle streets of Graceville alongside the surging floodwaters of the Brisbane River, residents are retrieving what they can.
Alarming report on risks covered up
A SECRET report by scientific and engineering experts warned of significantly greater risks of vast destruction from Brisbane River flooding.
The seconds that separated life and death
WHEN the water in the living room of Steven and Sandra Matthews’s home reached ankle deep on Monday, they began to discuss how to save their furniture.
Thiess clears desal executives
ONE of Australia’s top construction companies has ended its investigation into a spying scandal
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