NSW’s deadly one-in-100-years floods could have been slashed by two metres using dams, CSIRO finds

A new study from CSIRO finds that ten dams could have reduced flood levels by up to two metres during the twenty twenty-two Lismore floods in New South Wales. Those one-in-one-hundred-year floods killed thirteen people. But even with the dams, a key levee still would have overflowed. Four years on, according to The Guardian, the government hasn't committed to building them.

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