Which begs the question: why don’t we use the dam for flood mitigation as it is, by lowering its water level now? In effect, use the dam in the same way that the ‘wall-raisers’ suggest, only with better management and far less cost. Which begs a further question to make this work: can we do with far less water storage for Sydney? Can we take away a substantial part of the dam’s role as water supply, lower its regular height, so that it can perform the flood mitigation role?
Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his nine-year-old son were killed while hiking in the Blue Mountains on Monday afternoon following weeks of heavy rains and flooding.
The Blue Mountains National Park will be closed from Wednesday morning, excluding Evans Lookout and Govetts Leap lookout due to heavy rain forecast for the rest of the week.
Locals have made a decision to close down an entire national park following the tragic deaths of a British father and son in a landslide, saying it's like