A dairy farmer is racing to save his robotic dairy after a levee at Mypolonga breaches, despite peak floodwaters still a week or two away from arriving.
abc.net.au/news/mypolonga-levee-breach-murray-river-floodwaters-arriving/101811132Murray River floodwaters have breached a levee at Mypolonga, north of Murray Bridge, flooding South Australian farmland.About 180 hectares of the Smart's 250ha property are underwater following the levee-breachIt could be a year before the Mypolonga floodplain can again be used for livestock
"We were down checking the levee bank and headed home and looked down at the river and saw a bit of breach and, 'Bang', there it was. The whole farm was going underwater," he said.Mr Smart estimated the levee-breach in the state's Murraylands had grown from 3 metres to nearly 30 metres in one day, as water rushed through to flood his farm.
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