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Faltering Flood Funding FLOODPLAIN VOL 2 No. 1 MANAGER FEBRUARY 2006 CONNECTING AND INFORMING AUSTRALIAN FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INSIDE MEMORIES COME FLOODING Editorial 2 BACK FOR TASMANIANS Queensland Dam Safety 2 Diary 3 State and Federal Government officials joined forces to release Flood Risk Course 2006 3 a survey aimed at assessing flood awareness levels in the Tasmanian community to increase public education and unify HWRS Conference 3 emergency responses. NSW Flood Conference 4 Neil Watson Retires 4 Jointly announced by Jim Lloyd, Commonwealth Minister for SA SES Gets Flood Control 4 Local Government, Territories and Roads, David Llewellyn, Australian Natural Hazard 4 Tasmanian Minister for Police and Public Safety and Greg Risk Assessments Hunt, Commonwealth Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, the survey is being NSW LEP Confusion 5 implemented as part of a larger project, Floods and You, Tsunami Early Warning 5 funded through the Natural Disaster Mitigation Program. System Finished Tsunami Prediction Model 5 It is hoped the educational materials created through the TEWIS Launch 5 project by the Tasmanian Flood Warning Consultative Committee will alert residents to potential risks and emergency EMA Tsunami Brochures 6 procedures when a warning is issued. Flood Insurance Brochures 6 Federal Flood Funding 6 “All levels of government have a role to play in flood Safer Community Award 6 mitigation but getting the community actively involved is equally important,” said Mr Lloyd. Australian Floods 6 International News 8 The survey will delve into the memories of community members who have experienced flooding in their local area SUBSCRIBE and responses will be used to assess general awareness of the Floodplain Manager is distributed flood risk within that municipality. Information collated will to subscribers. Six editions are be compiled and used to determine the content on a soon-to- published each year. The annual be-available flood awareness website. subscription fee is $99 including Mr Hunt says of the initiative, “Surveys such as this are vital to GST. Back issues are available. improving the effectiveness of flood mitigation efforts, in Subscription, inquiries should be particular the flood warning services provided by the Bureau directed to Molino Stewart of Meteorology.” P: 02 9891 5399 The survey is available to all Tasmanians and can be either E: [email protected] completed on-line or downloaded from W: www.molinostewart.com.au www.floodsandyou.org, or posted out on request. ISSN 1832-4541 Copyright © Molino Stewart Pty Ltd 2005. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the permission of the publisher. Permission inquiries should be emailed to [email protected] FLOODPLAIN MANAGER page 2 February 2006 EDITORIAL AGEING DAMS ‘WON’T WITHSTAND A FLOOD’ Late one evening last year I was fortunate to catch a documentary Queensland is facing the prospect of an $800M bill for the called “Revenge of the River state’s dams after a report found many did not have an Gods” on ABC TV. acceptable flood capacity. It was a fascinating visual record The Bureau of Meteorology’s revision of the Tropical Storm of the Chinese response to the Methodology for Probable Maximum Precipitation estimation 1998 floods which devastated in late 2003 has shown that the chances of major floods hitting northern China. While I have read the state has been greatly underestimated and, if action is not and heard many papers on these taken, lives could be at risk. floods, they did not compare with the images on my TV screen. The Beattie Government released an action plan for more than 250 dams deemed "referable" – those that would put the lives The scale was staggering. of two or more people in danger if they failed. A spokesman Enormous levees hundreds of for Acting Natural Resources and Mines Minister John Mickel kilometres long protected small said repair costs over 30 years could total $800M but added it and large cities, as well as towns was not yet known how many dams would require and villages. But when the small improvements. cities have populations of five million the population at risk soon SunWater, the state's main water supply authority, has already adds up to hundreds of millions. announced plans to upgrade four dams in the next two years: Tinaroo Falls Dam on the Atherton Tableland; Bjelke-Petersen Seeing these levees breach was Dam near Murgon; Borumba Dam southwest of Gympie and frightening but to see the repair Fred Haigh Dam near Gin Gin in central Queensland. strategies was truly amazing. SunWater will upgrade a further 12 dams in the next 20 years. Unsuccessful attempts included pushing trucks, huge barges and SunWater general manager Peter Boettcher said his even ballast laden railway organisation had studied the weather bureau's data to carriages into the breaches. determine which dams needed to be upgraded. "What this upgrading program is about is making sure that our dams meet What worked was thousands of today's standards,” he said. soldiers using rocks to pile drive bamboo posts into the widening The Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water which breach, attaching horizontal is the state’s regulator of large dams, has not yet set standards bamboos to make a cage and then for the state’s dams. Sunwater engineers told Floodplain literally running with sandbags Manager they are taking the initiative by using ANCOLD which they manhandled and guidelines for acceptable flood capacity (AFC). It is upgrading dropped into the bamboo cage in stages and focussing on bringing each up to 50% of AFC or until the breach was plugged. better as an interim measure until standards are set. I have made inquiries and Mr Boettcher said that it was ironic to be talking about extreme unfortunately this series on China, flooding when many of the state's dams were so low. "At this of which this episode was part, is point in time it's hard to imagine you'd get rainfall of this not available on video. If it nature," he said, "but I guess it's always salutary to think that becomes available or is on TV big droughts are usually followed by big floods." again make the effort to see it. Source: The Australian and Sunwater Steven Molino Copyright © Molino Stewart Pty Ltd 2005. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the permission of the publisher. Permission inquiries should be emailed to [email protected] February 2006 FLOODPLAIN MANAGER page 3 DIARY • Association of State Floodplain Managers 30th Annual Conference 2006 AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCES Albuquerque, NM USA June 11-16, 2006 www.floods.org/Conferences,%20Calendar/albu • Introduction to Floodplain Risk querque.asp Management in NSW Lismore, NSW Feb 27-28, 2006 nd See article on this page • 2 International Symposium “Preventing [email protected] and Fighting Hydrological Disasters” Timisoara, Romania Jun 29-July 1, 2006 [email protected] • Floods Are Our Future 46th Annual Floodplain Management Authorities Conference. See article on page 4. • Frontiers in Flood Research Lismore, NSW Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2006 IAHS-UNESCO VIIIth Kovacs Colloquium [email protected] Paris, France Jun 30 -July 1, 2006 [email protected] • 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling/ 4th International • Flood and Coastal Management Conference on WSUD Conference Melbourne, April 3-7, 2006 University of York, UK July 4-6, 2006 www.icms.com.au/UDMandWSUD www.defra.gov.uk/environ/fcd/conference/confer ence.htm • 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium Past, Present and Future FLOOD RISK COURSE 2006 See article on this page Launceston, Tasmania Dec 4-7, 2006 More than 70 people have registered for the Abstract Deadline 10 March, 2006 inaugural “Introduction to Floodplain Risk [email protected] Management in NSW” course which is being run www.cdesign.com.au/hydrology2006 on the day before the NSW FMA conference in Lismore. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES More info: Lynn Cameron 02 6755 4271. • EWC3 Third International Conference on Early Warning HWRS CONFERENCE Bonn, Germany Mar 27-29, 2006 th [email protected] The 30 Hydrology and Water Resources th www.ewc3.org Symposium is on 4-7 December, 2006. This year the focus is on Past, Present and • Workshop on Flood Forecasting Future, with guest speakers Dr Walter Boughton, Management in Mountainous Areas Associate Professor Ron Cox and Dr Rory Pokhara, Nepal April 17-19, 2006 Nathan. Held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, [email protected] Launceston, Tasmania, this conference is a fantastic opportunity to evaluate past successes • 2nd International Symposium on and failures, discuss recent developments and Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting plan for future improvements in hydrology, as and Hydrology well as take part in the social events. Boulder, Colorado USA June 4-8, 2006 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/qpf06 Call for abstracts now open with submissions closing on 10th March 2006. Copyright © Molino Stewart Pty Ltd 2005. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the permission of the publisher. Permission inquiries should be emailed to [email protected] FLOODPLAIN MANAGER page 4 February 2006 NSW FLOOD CONFERENCE 2006 organisation to other emergency services,” says Mr Stevenson. Lismore will play host to more than 200 delegates at the 46th Annual NSW FMA The new law and a gradual change in culture Conference in Lismore from 28th February to 2nd now vests authority with the SA SES in flood March, preceded by a one-day short course on emergencies, as witnessed in the November 2005 Floodplain Risk Management developed by the deluge (Floodplain Manager, December 2005). Department of Natural Resources (see page 3). As a result, the SA SES is presently involved in training up staff and volunteers to meet their Delegates will include engineers, councillors, increased responsibilities and increasing council management and consultancy firms communication and co-operation with local coming together to discuss relevant advances in government organisations.
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