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I quite like the Margaret Rutherford ‘camp old nonsense’, but I have to admit that Joan Hickson’s interpretation of her as ‘insufferable old bat’ is definitive (ask anyone in Wivenhoe).
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Inquiry head calls Wivenhoe flood manual 'a bit of a mess' QUEENSLAND's flood commissioner has described the operations manual for Brisbane's Wivenhoe dam as "a bit of a mess".
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Aussigecko's comments about Wivenhoe Dam are quite correct, please read.
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Whether Wivenhoe management should have allowed minor flooding in Brisbane sooner or not, and whether allowing minor flooding of Brisbane in December would have meant less major flooding this week, maybe the review will inform us more.
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The rising flood waters have forced officials to release water from the Wivenhoe Dam, built to protect Brisbane after devastating floods in 1974.
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As of Friday the 7th, Wivenhoe stood at 105% - more-or-less the 100% set point for drinking water.
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A lot of the floods in Brisbane were from inflows below Wivenhoe Dam, which would have occurred even with no water from Wivenhoe.
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The Wivenhoe Dam on the Brisbane river was built to protect the city of Brisbane from another flood like the one of 1974.
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Wivenhoe Bookshop23 High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BE, 01206 824050Behind the charming 17th-century clapboard facade of Wivenhoe Bookshop lie two small but perfectly formed rooms filled with books, and a large shed in the courtyard out back, loftily known as the event space.
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I can't comment on the management of Wivenhoe Dam, but I understand the flood mitigation part was emptied before the wet season because of the coming floods.
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