Lismore, the epicentre of Australia's most expensive natural disaster, was not prioritised in this week's federal announcement of $236 million to fund flood warning upgrades.
Senator Watt pointed to NSW receiving $15 million in federal funding last August to support councils over the next four years to install, upgrade and operate flood warning gauges.Lismore City Council applied for grants last year to install 12 new gauges in the upper catchment as well as three flood cameras at key locations.
"It's fair to say that people [in government] understand the issues, but the wheels of government do turn a bit slowly sometimes," he said. A long-time advocate for flood mitigation around the Lismore area, Richard Trevan, said the city deserved top priority. The lack of gauges along the creek meant river heights were severely underestimated and contributed to an underestimation of the flood peak at Lismore.
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