Lord Mayor Clem Jones launched an appeal, and Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen asked the federal government for record flood relief funding. There was a backlash against insurance companies, with fears they would ramp up premiums; and there were complaints that Civil Defence the forerunner of the SES was not properly equipped with rescue or communications tools, which hampered rescue and recovery efforts. There were calls for an inquiry into the flood, including whether lessons from earlier floods had been ignored; and there was reassurance that the planned Wivenhoe Dam would prevent a similar disaster in the future.
But throughout there was humour and community spirit, with a sign on a flooded house in Cromarty Street, Kenmore summing it up:. The courage and heartbreak of floods remembered. Please try again later. Flood map of Brisbane and suburbs, delineating the extent of the January Brisbane River flood The map also shows those areas subject to probable inundation for various flood heights on the Port Office Gauge, as indicated on the Bureau of Industry Flood map.
The red line indicates the flood line. News of the day TBA Background This map, prepared by the Survey Office, relates to the January, , flood line to areas of probable inundation for various river heights as delineated on the original Brisbane Flood Map compiled by the Bureau of industry in It was also reported that residents in Jindalee had armed themselves with shotguns to defend their properties against looters.
By Thursday, the '74 version of the Mud Army involving thousands of council workers, army and emergency personnel and volunteers had begun the clean-up. In the bright morning sun, they began their homeward journeys - some by car, others by boat and still more on foot. The paper's front page "Alert on health danger" warned of the threat of disease from tons of raw sewage, chemicals and fuel in south-western suburbs.
Volunteers toiling amid the sludge and filth complained that cuts were becoming septic almost immediately. As the week from hell drew to a close, The Courier-Mail ran an editorial on its front page of Saturday, February 2: "Queenslanders take a bow.
This week in the face of disaster people have responded superbly. There is no glamour in shovelling mud or scrubbing muck-encrusted walls. It is hard, stinking drudgery. But Operation Clean-up was not as organised as the Mud Army and massive traffic jams marred the effort.
Sightseers were also a problem. Local people stopped mopping up to throw mud at the bus and its passengers," the paper reported.
As the southeast cleaned up, the floods had claimed 14 lives, ruined about homes and left homeless. In the ensuing years - much as in the wake of the floods - the issue of whether the impact of the floods could have been lessened was hotly debated. Many experts proposed that government authorities should buy back flood-prone land and prevent development. Soon after the '74 floods, Queensland ALP heavyweight and union leader Jack Egerton had called on the State Government to resume all flooded areas as park lands.
In the wake of the floods, The Courier-Mail reported that Professor Trevor Grigg, an economist and engineer, said many of the solutions to the floods were ignored and claimed that contributed to the devastating property losses of the disaster.
Appointed by the State Government for a report on the then-proposed Wivenhoe Dam in , Prof Grigg advised areas of unacceptable flood risk from Breakfast Creek back to Indooroopilly be reserved for sporting grounds or other projects not at risk from floods.
The dam would significantly reduce damage, but Prof Grigg advised some land on the flood plain should be quarantined from development if the damage was to be contained. To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout. Is free range always a good option for hens? Some experts have differing opinions. Embattled coal mine suffers blow as corporate cop presses charges.
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