An aerial sand-bagging operation is underway to protect the supply of drinking water to almost 300 properties in South Australia, but crews working to bolster the local levee also have had a couple of unexpected challenges.
abc.net.au/news/river-murray-floods-breach-levees-and-threaten-pump/101829854An aerial operation is underway to protect a pump that supplies drinking water to almost 300 properties in South Australia, but some homes in the area have already been engulfed, after the main levee failed to hold back River Murray floodwaters.
This brown snake was detected near where SES and SA Water are working to protect a levee and a vital pump. Mr Best said the floods had driven snakes from their homes, and the two in question were both eastern brown snakes. "It will take a day-and-a-half to get the rest of the bags installed and we'll see how they perform," Mr Beattie said.Homes go under after main levee breached
"Personal belongings, tools, a classic car — it's all basically gone. There's probably not much left there at the moment but, as I said, we're not the only ones."
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