A flood management expert says avoiding flood problems means making the right decision at the start - and now the Maribyrnong River’s issues are almost impossible to fix.
A flood management expert says too little caution was taken when the Flemington Racecourse flood wall was built in 2007 and it is almost impossible to fix mitigation problems on the Maribyrnong River caused by poor decision-making.
Former Supreme Court judge Tony Pagone chaired Melbourne Water’s review of the October 2022 Maribyrnong River flood, which damaged more than 600 properties. He told the inquiry he was surprised the VRC had not been required to ensure its works would not harm its neighbours. Pagone told Friday’s parliamentary hearing that when he and fellow panel members asked the VRC if there was a report on the mitigation works, “the answer in a nutshell was ‘no’.”He found it “odd” the club had not been obliged to examine the works’ effectiveness and felt there should be more attention to governance.
Melbourne Water managing director Nerina Di Lorenzo, who also addressed the parliamentary inquiry on Friday, said work was needed to understand how flood mitigation along the Maribyrnong River catchment could be strengthened, with homes having been hit by an average of 80 centimetres of water during the 2022 inundation.
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