Record rains for Sunshine Coast ...
Excerpt from Courier Mail:From drought to flooding rains
24 August 2007
An Energex crew has been plucked from a flooded creek and the State Emergency Service has made three other flood boat rescues after up to 632mm of rain swamped the Sunshine Coast.
The Energex crew was rescued by canoe this morning after their vehicle became stuck in floodwaters near Kin Kin.
SES boats were used in three other rescues overnight.
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Excerpt from the Courier Mail:
Storm runoff goes begging
24 August 2007
The latest downpours could have been put to good use by the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre - but its stormwater harvester is on hold.
The latest Bureau of Meteorology recordings show the city has had 50.6mm of rain since Sunday. This would have made 1.3 megalitres of water available for the South Bank centre's gardens if the harvester had been installed on time.
The plans for the $100 million extension are still waiting to go before the State Government, and the structure is not expected to be working until year's end.
The South Bank Corporation's Glenda Viner said many details of the harvester had not yet been finalised. "We're scoping out ways of how we would collect and store the water – there's a lot of engineering plans to be done," she said.
"We do have some tanks in place to collect backwash water from the pools, which is then distributed as recycled water to the parklands."
The State Government also has plans for a 20,000-litre tank next to Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art.
10:12 AM, August 24, 2007
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