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.

Dam engineers criticised for 2011 Brisbane floods defend handling, say governments need to act on planning regulations By Rory Callinan ...

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 ...

At the opening of the dam in 1985, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared he doubted if a flood on the scale of 1974 could occur again. Newspapers propagated the myth.

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 ...

Early last month, the official inquiry into this year’s floods in Queensland began examining the operations of Wivenhoe Dam and its impact on Brisbane, the state capital. The hearings raised ...

On that fateful day, Seqwater, the manager of Wivenhoe and Somerset dams, was urgently juggling the rate of dam water releases to prevent a major flooding problem for Ipswich and Brisbane.

Flood releases from Somerset Dam and Wivenhoe Dam began from midday, and will occur over a six hour period to 6pm.

Editorial: Wivenhoe Dam operators made right call Whether they just got lucky or their reliance on the manual paid off, our dam operators appear to have made all the right calls, writes the editor.

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.