The personal cost to local primary producers of remediating flood damage to their properties twelve months after the event remains extremely high. Damaged fencelines, clogged drainage channels and loss of pasture productivity are a few of the issues. On the Government owned Long Flat levee bank, the width is only 50% following flood damage, leaving adjacent properties extremely vulnerable to a third flood event (the second one occurred in September last year). Also at Long Flat, local farmers are cleaning out the "salt drain" that intercepts the underground saline water coming from the Grampians. This is at their own personal expense and is for the benefit of the entire community, including Government agencies.
The personal cost to local primary producers of remediating flood damage to their properties twelve months after the event remains extremely high. Damaged fencelines, clogged drainage channels and loss of pasture productivity are a few of the issues. On the Government owned Long Flat levee bank, the width is only 50% following flood damage, leaving adjacent properties extremely vulnerable to a third flood event (the second one occurred in September last year). Also at Long Flat, local farmers are cleaning out the "salt drain" that intercepts the underground saline water coming from the Grampians. This is at their own personal expense and is for the benefit of the entire community, including Government agencies.