What flood strategies would you embrace?

“…more needs to be done in terms of re-zoning, preventing increased development in flood-prone areas and removing more properties from these areas… We need to go beyond dams for flood mitigation and embrace strategies like revegetation and creating flood soaks on the floodplain, better stormwater management, new building designs and materials and lastly public education to adapt to living in a sub-tropical city like Brisbane, situated on river that floods.”

Dr Margaret Cook in: Colin Hutchins “Why was Brisbane’s 2022 flood different?” GriffithNews May 23, 2023

Image: Large volume of water being discharged from the Wivenhoe Dam floods surrounding land, 11 January 2011. Courtesy: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.