FazzNoth Posted October 5, 2022 Posted October 5, 2022 Expert raises concerns about raising of Warragamba Dam wall Water expert and professor of environmental engineering at UNSW, Stuart Kahn, has taken to social media to raise concerns in response to NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s announcement that the Warragamba Dam wall will be raised by 14 metres. While Perrottet has said the raising of the dam wall will protect communities from future flooding, Kahn is critical of the government’s development plans for the area. He says they are putting more people “in harm’s way” and contravene recommendations from the 2022 flood inquiry. When it comes to flood mitigation options for the Hawkesbury-Neapean valley, the report commissioned by the NSW government said: The single largest driver of flood risk in the Valley is the development in the floodplain. It follows then that one of the most effective flood risk mitigation mechanisms is the application of stronger planning controls on current and future development in the Valley. Gallagher is maintaining that the government hasn’t changed its position: We are finalising a budget where we are looking across the board at a whole range of decisions and we are being upfront. But she said the government would be “mindful of the economic circumstances of the times”: The responsibility for us, working hand in hand with the RBA, is to make the right decisions for the right economic reasons. Gallagher says the government will be doing “the right thing for the budget and the right thing for the Australian people.” Perrottet says “we put people before plants” NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is taking questions at a press conference at the Warragamba Dam, where he announced the raising of the dam wall will be a critical state significant project. NSW state reporter Tamsin Rose is at that press conference where she reports Perrottet was asked how inundating parts of the Blue Mountains was consistent with the area being named a priority place in the new national threatened species action plan. Perrottet: We put people before plants. Asked how inundating parts of the Blue Mountains was consistent with the area being named a priority place in the new national threatened species action plan, Perrottet says "we put people before plants”. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/australia-news-live-optus-lawyering-up-a-poor-look-assistant-treasurer-says-gp-crisis-summit-begins-in-canberra/ar-AA12BzFb
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