Releases from Wivenhoe Dam raised water levels in the Brisbane River by up to 10 metres during January's flood, a panel of independent hydrologists has found.

Wivenhoe Dam was built in the 1980s to provide flood protection to south-east Queensland after the devastating 1974 floods. In 2011, releases from the dam contributed to extensive flooding in ...

But then in the subsequent flood commission of inquiry before Justice Catherine Holmes, it was found that Wivenhoe Dam had been operated in breach of official operating rules, contained in the dam ...

But in 2010, authorities seriously considered “raising operational levels” in the Wivenhoe Dam — that is, removing or reducing the flood buffer — according to the South East Queensland ...

One of Wivenhoe Dam's five outflow gates on January 11, 2021, 10 years after the 2011 January floods. Credit: Tony Moore "The volume of total inflow into Wivenhoe Dam during the Event was ...

Wivenhoe Dam floodgates to open amid Queensland flooding fears. The plan to release 116,000 megalitres of water, to free up dam space, comes as Australia’s east coast faces another summer of ...

Flood releases from Somerset Dam and Wivenhoe Dam began from midday, and will occur over a six hour period to 6pm. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting showers and thunderstorms today and ...

Whether they just got lucky or their reliance on the manual paid off, our dam operators appear to have made all the right calls as Cyclone Alfred loomed over the southeast. Read Today's Paper Tributes ...

The whole point of Wivenhoe’s 155-page flood manual is to provide detailed guidance for the dam’s decision-makers rather than being captive to the whim of politicians.

The whole point of Wivenhoe’s 155-page flood manual is to provide detailed guidance for the dam’s decision-makers rather than being captive to the whim of politicians.

Dams cannot prevent floods. At the opening of Wivenhoe Dam on October 18, 1985, Bjelke-Petersen declared he “doubted if the 1974 flood could occur again because the dam would absorb an enormous ...