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Feb 28, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
Update (1/9) on Wivenhoe Dam as of 11am on 28/02/2022:

The peak flood levels being experienced now would have occurred naturally without Wivenhoe Dam releases.

Wivenhoe Dam has performed exactly how it was designed to operate... (2/ 9)

The inflow into Somerset and Wivenhoe Dams, experienced as a consequence of this extreme weather event, has been 2.2 million megalitres.

Only 150,000 megalitres of this has been released so far in a slow and controlled way to protect Brisbane.

Wivenhoe is doing its job