Ian Mueller and his family have been producing milk at their Riverglen farm for more than 20 years — and while a flood could cost them their livelihoods, locals are pitching in to stop that happening.
abc.net.au/news/saving-murray-bridge-farm-from-river-floodwaters/101820538In a small town, just south of Murray Bridge, a community is working day and night to help save a family's dairy farm from the rising River Murray.The Riverglen community has ratcheted up sandbagging efforts to protect properties in the water's pathThat includes Ian Mueller's dairy farmIf their 240 hectares of land were to flood, it could cost them their livelihoods.
Some residents have raced to snatch up much-needed sandbags and others have lent their cement trucks to speed up the process of filling them."We've probably got close to a metre to go before the water overtops the levee," Mr Mueller said."But nature is a very powerful force and it's more powerful than what our community here at Riverglen is."
On New Year's Day, the group of locals worked from 10am to 8pm, filling up hundreds of sandbags that are being used to shore up weaker parts of the levee. "Now that my irrigation is out because I don't have any power, I've got no stock water," Mr Padman said."If they didn't, I'd have to move all the horses and my trees would all die."
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