The Schultz family are among many Riverland residents and businesses building their own levees to protect themselves from the rising River Murray.
abc.net.au/news/great-wall-of-gurra-gurra-protecting-riverland-family-from-flood/101798994The Schultz family barricaded their Riverland home as soon as they caught wind that they could be in the firing line of the rising River Murray.A family in the area near Berri has built a makeshift levee around their house"We decided if we're going to build a fence, we might as well make it for the 1974 flood level," Linley Schultz said.
"So far it's got a few leaks and a lot of seepage underneath, but we have four sump pumps that run 24 hours a day."Linley Schultz and his son Jack spent Wednesday strengthening their defences, transporting sheets of tin and planks of wood on top of two canoes they strapped together. Peak water flows down the river are expected to hit the nearby town of Berri around late December to early January.
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