Floodwaters on the Nullarbor are slowly starting to recede more than a month after drought-breaking rain cut off outback pastoral stations in one of Australia's most isolated regions.
Floodwaters remain waist deep in some areas more than a month after widespread flooding hit the Nullarbor .Recovery efforts are expected to take months and currently being hampered by persistently high water levels.
The drought-breaking flooding closed the Trans Australian Railway Line for 21 days and briefly affected the Eyre Highway, which has had a "We had some floods in 2010, I think it was, but it was nowhere near this extent, and we were only out of action for about a month before we could drive around," he said.Mr Campbell operates a trucking business Nullarbor Transport Services.
"I think it's going to be at least two months before we can get a truck out to our end because there's a lot of water still covering the roads," he said."Now that the trains are up and running we can get some stores out on the train, and we're just starting to be able to drive around," he said.
She said her husband had used a kayak to tow a 24,000-litre diesel tank to higher ground to prevent a spill, among various other "incredible feats".
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