STATE GOVT TO PLAN FOR FLOOD RESISTANT COMMUNITIES
Source: Queensland. Premier and the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability. Media Release
"The State Government and the Local Government Association of Queensland will work together on a state-first project to improve Queensland’s resilience to changing flood conditions caused by climate change. Premier Anna Bligh and Climate Change and Sustainability Minister Kate Jones made the announcement at Community Cabinet in Longreach – at the centre of a region which experienced terrible floods last year.
Ms Bligh said the State Government would invest more than $300,000 in the project, which will begin this week, to focus on helping councils better identify inland flood prone areas of the state.
Officers from the Department of Environment and Resource Management and the Department of Infrastructure and Planning will work with local Council planner officers on the project."