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Flood fears for property near Dirranbandi

The State Emergency Service (SES) has been deployed to re-enforce a levee on a private property near the town of Dirranbandi in Queensland's southern inland.

Grazier Marilyn McCulloch says the levees around her place are threatening to breach before the Balonne River peaks tonight.

She says more than three metres of water is banked up behind the levee.

"If it breaks the main levee - and this side levee we're patching now - if it breaks away, the water will come down a channel to this house, and probably wash it away on its stumps," she said.

Richard Backhouse from the Balonne Shire Council says help has been dispatched.

"The SES has flown out a helicopter from St George," she said.

"They took four blokes out there and we've just seen them now - they've just come into Dirranbandi.

"They're going to pick another three shire workers and take them out with some sandbags."


- ABC

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