Ten years after ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald battered the Queensland coast and prompted what was then Australia's biggest ever peacetime evacuation, calls for long-awaited flood mitigation plans have been renewed.
The January 2013 flood sparked the largest emergency evacuation in Queensland's history.abc.net.au/news/renewed-calls-bundaberg-flood-evacuation-route-cyclone-oswald/101882720Ten years since ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald pounded the Queensland coast and left a trail of destruction and flooding, one regional town is still trying to improve its evacuation plan for thousands of residents.
"The idea that some 10,000 people on the north side of Bundaberg do not get the opportunity to evacuate through the quickest route is appalling."Coming up with a plan "Early designs of the evacuation route showed that there was some alarm around the amount of flooding that could be impacted back upon residents that lived upstream of the evacuation route that was proposed," he said.
"I'm very confident that [the federal government] will provide the money that we need to ensure that we can deliver mitigation and evacuation for the good people of Bundaberg," Mr Smith said.