Assistance and recovery Assistance and recovery efforts included the following.
• Disaster recovery payments and disaster recovery allowances were available to flood victims. • Disaster relief appeals and organisations including the Australian Red Cross, Salvation Army and GIVIT provided aid and assistance. • Community recovery hubs were established to provide additional support services to flood victims and their families, such as emergency accommodation and mental health support. • The Australian Defence Force assisted with cleanup. • The ‘Mud Army’, with 55 000 registered and thousands of unregistered volunteers, aided the cleanup.
FIGURE8 Anatomy of a flood
Town heights above sea level (in metres) : • Toowoomba: 700 m • Murphys Creek: 704 m
SkillBuilder discussion Geographical inquiry 1. Which rivers contributed to the flooding shown in themap? 2. How did the Wivenhoe Dam affect the flow of water during the flood? 3. What areas within the
• Withcott: 262 m • Helidon: 143 m • Grantham: 110 m • Gatton: 111 m • Forest Hill: 95 m
• Laidley: 135 m • Ipswich: 54.8 m • Brisbane: 28.4 m 1. Floodwaters from Lockyer Creek, flowing into the Brisbane River, came from over 200 mm of rain in the Lockyer Valley. 2. Over 490 000 million litres were released from Wivenhoe Dam into the Brisbane River. 3. Floodwaters from the Bremer River, fed by the Lockyer Valley, caused flooding after bursting its banks in Ipswich before joining the Brisbane River.
Lockyer Valley Catchment Area were most impacted by the flood?
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