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Qld flood plain management approach 'ad hoc'

Experts say Queensland is decades behind other states when it comes to flood plain management.

Consultant and Macquarie University associate Chas Keys says successive Queensland Governments have focused on building dams and have only built levees around a handful of towns.

He says it has been an ad hoc approach.

"It's not been all that well considered," he said.

"It's not been developed to templates of standard, if I can put it that way.

"We've now had three summers in a row of very serious flood damage being done in Queensland and if Queensland had done what New South Wales did, 50, 40, 30, 20 years ago, it would have been better off than it is now."


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