A controversial plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall will be accelerated by the NSW government despite warnings over the project’s environmental impacts, as Premier Dominic Perrottet declared the state must “put people before plants”.
The premier said Water NSW would soon complete a report into the dam wall raising before it is sent to the Environmental Protection Authority and eventually the federal government for approvals, “then bang we’re done, we start the work”. Declaring a project State Significant Infrastructure also makes it more difficult for opponents to launch legal challenges against it.
“The only way is up, build that wall, get it up by 14 metres and that’s what we plan to do and great to see that today,” Anderson said. “We also need to build homes so young people can get into the property market. It’s a balancing act. We can’t stop development, we need development.”Asked whether the decision to raise the dam wall was politically motivated ahead of an election set to be won or lost in western Sydney, Perrottet said, “It’s not about votes, it’s about protecting communities.”
Sharpe said the government’s plan was eight years from completion, and people vulnerable to flooding in western Sydney needed a more urgent response.A document produced in June by an independent inquiry into the state’s recent flooding disasters warned more than 160,000 people would require evacuation from the Hawkesbury-Nepean floodplain in the event of an extreme flood in 2041 if development was to go ahead as planned.
Rabe9 Reckless
Rabe9 So wrong 😕
Rabe9 Plants hold back more water than concrete.
Rabe9 Developers before people and plants. nswpol
Rabe9 Stop building on floodplains!
Rabe9 'but water experts – such as Jamie Pittock from the Australian National University – point out that, on average, 45% of flood waters that reach the valley come from catchments that would not be controlled by the dam'
Rabe9 So just flood backwards. Okay.
Rabe9 So a continuation of the environmental destruction by the government.
Rabe9 Won't fix anything as stated by the experts
Rabe9 No thanks. Leave it as is
Rabe9 Tom You’re correct in that this is a difficult decision…but.. Warragamba was built at a time when Sydney’s population was 30% of current.. And now with recurrent flooding and paradoxically water restrictions Tim Flannery would probably endorse a proportional response
Rabe9 Actually, there are no people without plants.
Rabe9 Too Right !
Rabe9 Charging ahead with sustainable development away from floodplains might be wiser.
Rabe9 Just kill off a number of unique species that were the reason for not doing this in the first place. Also will do little to solve the problem of people living on a flood plain
Rabe9 Hydrology studies show raising the dam wall doesn’t reduce risk of flooding. So explain how this puts people before plants.
Rabe9 Why don’t the people who live on flood zones take ‘personal responsibility’ and move ?
Rabe9 Well, it should have been No Housing On Flood Plains instead of allowing fast buck developers to make money off people. Nature will win and those houses will get flooded. Shift them instead. But of course thats not great vote getting 6 months out from an election.
Rabe9 Catchy slogan Dom. Scotty working for you now?
Rabe9 But.... Without plants, we have no balance in the ecosystem for o2 and co2 These are the things we need for balance of the climate emissions Plants....
Rabe9 another religious nutter to be terrified of
Rabe9 How many hours longer will it take before the dam spills after it is raised? Not many, it may buy a few time to evacuate but it will not stop floods.
Rabe9 May I use “people before plants” with my local council disagreement.
Rabe9 Plants are life.
Rabe9 Like a parent to a disobedient kid 'don't do that it's dangerous' and the kid does it anyway and others get hurt. Who's he going to blame when it all goes wrong ?
MSMWatchdog2013 Rabe9 Hey Dom_Perrottet . The plants came before the people. Move the people.
Rabe9 so getting the existing under water area explored must be done if we ever have another drought
Rabe9 Developers before both.
Rabe9 Developers before people.
Rabe9 Is this a word game for the thousands of trees disappearing every day around here and being replaced by tons of concrete?
Rabe9 Good.
Rabe9 That is a rather simplistic motto. The reality is that the vast population on the floodplain are extremely vulnerable. Raising the dam may help in the short term but addressing climate change will help in the long term.
Rabe9 Typically LNP response to anything to do with nature. Koala or homes? People before bears. But when it comes to stopping stupid developers selling on flood plains. Go right ahead. Water or homes? Water before homes 🤔
Rabe9 Maybe if developers weren't allowed to flog blocks of land on flood plains
Rabe9 You know anything Dom decides is wrong. Icare, TAHE, overseas made, trains, ferries, trams, Windsor Bridge, the Power House Museum and Vales Point Power Station are just some of his fiascos.
Rabe9 Yet no people without plants
Rabe9 Election ploy of March 2023
Rabe9 It’s about time.
Rabe9 Should be on a t-shirt.
Rabe9 Waste of money. Not only environmental stupidity but wIll blow out to twice the cost. Will not stop a lot of the flooding. Only helps property developers.
Rabe9 Same meaning with different words: Short term lazy thinking over long term health and survival of my constituents.
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