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  • How Can the Northern Rivers Be Flooding Again Already?

    How Can the Northern Rivers Be Flooding Again Already?

    Right now, Lismore residents are going through their second major flood in a month. On February 28th, the devastating first flood peaked at 14.4 metres, fully two metres higher than the previous record of 12.27 metres in 1954, and well above the town’s 10-metre-high levee wall, constructed in 2005. Four people died, with 2000 homes…