Regarding the letter ‘Give me a house upon a floodplain’, seeing as most towns in Australia are built on floodplains isn’t it far better for regional towns to expand where the infrastructure already resides? Logically would you prefer to see more houses in the surrounding hills where the mountains were tumbling down and roads were damaged and cut off for months at a huge cost to repair? Or on our coastal ecologically-sensitive land which suffers the same fate or probably worse? Or farming land where we grow food? All options have issues.
We need to expand the town with sensible planning, drainage, roads and infrastructure and probably lift building heights and be more community-minded, for the flooding will come and go. There was damage but as quick as it came in it left again.
We have to be better prepared at these future events.
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