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Weighing up protection - public versus environment
Posted by neil, March 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Floods
Comments: 6
The picturesque watercourse in the header on the main page of the Politics & Environment Blog, is Cooper Creek. It is a relatively short watercourse (∼8 km), running between Thornton Peak and its mouth, which drains an enormous catchment in one of the world’s highest rainfall areas.
Over these past three days, about 250 mm [...]
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Beyond Media Headlines: The Key Issues for the Macquarie Marshes
Posted by jennifer, February 26th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Drought, Floods, National Parks, Water
Comments: none
Media reports yesterday** correctly drew attention to the fact that there are levy banks within the Macquarie Marshes and that they are depriving key wetland areas of water.
But the stories went on to lump upstream legal and planned irrigation development that makes allocations for environmental flows with legal and illegal levies on grazing land within [...]
Exceptional rainfall produces exceptionally clean waterways
Posted by neil, January 5th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Floods
Comments: 9
I recently reported that the wet season had well and truly arrived in the Daintree, with over 700 mm of rain in five days.
More recently, Jennifer published the Australian mean rainfall total for 2007 at 497 mm, slightly more than the long-term average of 472 mm.
So, there is no question; the Daintree Cape Tribulation rainforest [...]
Queensland Tsunami Warning
Posted by jennifer, April 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Floods
Comments: 7
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCASTQUEENSLAND TSUNAMI WARNING
Issued at 8:57am on Monday the 2nd of April 2007, by the Bureau of Meteorology
For people in coastal areas of Queensland.
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
TSUNAMI BULLETIN
TSUNAMI THREAT TO EASTERN AUSTRALIA and Willis and Barrier Reef Islands, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre in Hawaii has detected [...]
Licola Flood: A Note from Ralph Barraclough
Posted by jennifer, February 26th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Floods
Comments: 18
Late last year there were terrible bushfires across north eastern Victoria. Max Rheese sent us a note suggesting there was a need for more prescribed burning.
Now there is isolated flooding.
Following is a note and some photographs from Ralph Barraclough a landholder and a fire brigade captain with land adjacent and surrounded by the Alpine [...]

