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When good rivers turn bad: Extreme flooding
Case study - The Johnstone River, Far North Queensland

Possible flood mitigation strategies

  1. Constructed Carello's Channel
  2. Webb Levee
  3. River Dredging
  4. Removal of Carello's Levee
  5. Removal of Fill In Town Swamp
  6. Lowering the Height of the Bruce Highway
  7. Carello's Levee
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1. Origins of extreme weather | 2. Finding hidden treasure | 3. Streams and mass wasting
4. The Johnstone River, FNQ

The resources contained in this unit are courtesy of Earth Science Australia http://earthsci.org/