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What a difference a decade makes: Wivenhoe Dam then and now

What a difference a decade makes: Wivenhoe Dam then and now We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Very large text size Wivenhoe Dam reached its highest-ever level on January 11, 2011 – a day like no other for the main supplier of Brisbane s drinking water. On that fateful day, Seqwater, the manager of Wivenhoe and Somerset dams, was urgently juggling the rate of dam water releases to prevent a major flooding problem for Ipswich and Brisbane. Water being released from Wivenhoe Dam on January 11, 2011. The dam reached its highest-ever level on this day.

January 2011, and the floods that changed everything

Premium Content Subscriber only AS THE man in charge of a large rural area that usually celebrates every precious drop of rain, the catastrophic flood of 2011 was as bizarre a sight as anything Group Officer Dave Wandel can remember. Mr Wandel was in charge of the Prenzlau Rural Fire Brigade when the floods hit in January of that year, and while he lived only a short distance away, there was so much water being dumped on the ground that road access to work was cut off. In fact, of the 105 square-kilometre zone that the Prenzlau crews were responsible for, an astonishing 80 per cent was under water.

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