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Auction looms as residents push to secure Faulconbridge land, home to rare species and significant cultural heritage, for Blue Mountains National Park.
After the former foreign minister had spinal surgery, he found his rehabilitation program was simple but effective.
The NSW government’s “silver bullet” solution to manage flood risk is to raise Warragamba Dam even though the global experience is that this increases the danger to communities. Jim McIlroy reports.
Which begs the question: why don’t we use the dam for flood mitigation as it is, by lowering its water level now? In effect, use the dam in the same way that the ‘wall-raisers’ suggest, only with better management and far less cost. Which begs a further question to make this work: can we do with far less water storage for Sydney? Can we take away a substantial part of the dam’s role as water supply, lower its regular height, so that it can perform the flood mitigation role?
Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his nine-year-old son were killed while hiking in the Blue Mountains on Monday afternoon following weeks of heavy rains and flooding.