Water released onto the floodplain where a farmer died last night
abc.net.au/news/goulburn-murray-water-loch-garry-floodwater-release-farmer-death/101551736Water authorities are being accused of failing to operate flood mitigation infrastructure in northern Victoria, causing floodwater to flow uncontrollably onto a plain where a farmer drowned last night.
But staff from Goulburn-Murray Water only managed to partly open the gates at the weekend before leaving due to safety concerns.Police found his unoccupied tractor on Tuesday night, and his wife and son found his body in floodwater this morning.The management of the loch is governed by decades-old rules which say bars in the loch structure are pulled 24 hours after the Goulburn River reaches a major flood of 10.36m in Shepparton.
He said he tried to contact Goulburn-Murray Water to release the loch earlier but couldn't even get the water authority to answer the phone. "At that stage I gave up, but we've got the result of that now, had they picked up the phone I am 100 per cent sure that we could have got consensus of the Loch Garry people that the bars should be pulled out early."
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