Month: January 2013
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Here we go again . . .
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect to be seeing scenes like these just a couple of years after January 2011. (See the new Gallery page for more pictures of today’s flooding.) Then again, we shouldn’t be surprised: there’s no reason why floods should be spaced out evenly over time. Indeed, the historical…
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When waters collide
Just over a week ago I posted about the ‘tidal limits’ of Milton Drain, noting that at a very high tide, the drain is pretty much full to the brim. Today, I braved weather that ranged between miserable and awful in order to see how the drain held up when it had more than just…
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John Oxley Centre Fail
Back in April 2012 I posted about the renovations of the big courtyard in between the two office towers of the John Oxley Centre on Coronation Drive. This courtyard sits more or less on top of the old stream of Western Creek (now Milton Drain) just before it met the river. It is quite likely…
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Milton Drain’s tidal limits
Last Saturday (the 12th of January) we had a particularly high tide. According to willyweather.com, high tide at the Port Office was 2.7m at 10:51am. The Bureau of Meteorology’s tide tables suggest that we won’t get another tide this big (give or take a few centimetres) until the 26th of May. I was aware of…
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Floods aniversary special
Two years ago today, Rosalie and many other parts of Brisbane were underwater. Any misconceptions we had about the power of Wivenhoe Dam to save us from ever being flooded again were swept away, and before long, attention turned to what, if anything, we could do to stop this from happening again. In a post…
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Backflow to the future
Backflow to the Future… or: How we learned to stop worrying and love the floods Angus Veitch — 12 January 2013 (updated January 2014) Duckbill season If you’ve walked along the riverside bikeway at Milton recently and paid close attention to the riverbank, you may have noticed one of these: This is not a piece…