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THE results of a major study into the 2011 floods have been handed to Ipswich City Council a decade on from the disaster.
The Ipswich Integrated Catchment Plan sought public consultation before coming up with recommendations to help the city deal with future floods on a similar scale.
The information is with the council ahead of councillors being given the chance to review the study in early 2021 with a view to adopting it.
Mayor Teresa Harding said it was an important step and would play a crucial part in helping floodproof the city. Flooding in Ipswich on Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Ipswich CBD looking West.Photo: Rob Williams / The Queensland Times
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Subscriber only OFTEN overshadowed by the horror events of 2013, the 2010/11 Bundaberg floods were the worst in 40 years, ripping through homes, businesses and bringing about a temporary closure of the port. The days of December 28-29 saw the worst of the flooding event.
Boats on the Burnett River during the 2010 floods: Footage of boats on the Burnett River during the 2010 floods. Hundreds of homes were evacuated in the event, sparking fears of looting. Water St s Simon Jackson, who had been ferrying people from their inundated homes, told the
NewsMail he was exhausted, hadn t slept and feared looters would visit empty homes.