Flood levels remain at unprecedented heights in Queensland's gulf region, where it will be weeks before evacuated residents can return home. Station owners say they fear what they will find when the water recedes.
abc.net.au/news/flood-levels-peak-gulf-carpentaria-signs-destruction/102085524Station owners from the flood-ravaged Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland say they have lost everything, from cattle and stock to freezer rooms full of food, and it could be weeks before evacuated residents in the region can return home.
"It seems to have steadied if not started to recede at the moment," said emergency management coordinator for the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Mount Isa district, Elliott Dunn."It's really hard with gulf rivers to predict how much water is going to come up from those systems, but it's not rising.Dry houses in Burketown still have access to power and temporary facilities have been established in town for the 60 residents that chose to remain.
Over a couple of days, floodwater reached the roof of a property about 20 kilometres outside of Doomadgee.
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