Flood gauges to be upgraded as part of $263 million disaster warning network
ABCThe federal government will spend $236 million over the next decade to set up a national flood warning network, in an effort to safeguard communities against natural disasters. Key points: The federal government will buy and fix thousands of flood gauges across the country The project aims to improve community safety in disaster-prone areas The work will begin in Queensland Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the funding would be used to purchase and upgrade flood gauges in disaster-prone areas. "We've seen really terrifying examples in recent years where communities were left with not enough information; they were unprepared during floods because of broken or outdated flood gauges." "Many of them are old, they have to be read manually, so you're sending people out into dangerous weather to read flood gauges," she said. "One of the big findings of the O'Kane-Fuller report on the flood that we had was that no-one knew who was responsible for gauges, there was inconsistency, some didn't work, some got swamped," she said.
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