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January 18, 2017
Floods & LXRA
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Planning, GE Service Performance, GE Transport[8] Comments
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January 18, 2017 at 9:24 AM
Council needs to utilise one of their busy drainage Engineers to investigate this matter and based on the outcome advocate for our Ratepayers. Council must be pro-active.
January 18, 2017 at 9:55 AM
Many areas were flooded. Council needs to assess and report on all of these. A good start would be to check if the flooding of 2016 repeated the flooding areas of 2011. If they did then residents should be asking what improvements council has made to these areas since 2011. If new areas were under water then what is council going to do about this and how much it will cost. I’m not buying council’s blame game that it is all Melbourne Water’s fault or now the Lxra. Relevant too is how many developments have gone up in the new flood areas and their contribution to the old drainage system.
January 18, 2017 at 11:09 AM
Parts of centre rd also got flooded. Wonder if this had anything to do with the rail separation?
January 18, 2017 at 12:23 PM
Mr Evans where in the above article does it say Council is blaming someone?
January 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM
It doesn’t but if you go on past record that is what council always does. It happened with the 2011 floods and the delay in amendments has also put down to Melbourne Water.
January 18, 2017 at 12:33 PM
We have inadequate drainage, crumbling infrastructure, ever expanding non-permeable footprint, and decision-makers who run away from the consequences of their decisions [Council] and/or deny responsibility [VCAT, DELWP, Minister]. The problem was known 15 years ago but we still have no strategy or long-term solution. Finger-pointing isn’t a solution. The planning system allegedly requires decision-makers to consider the capacity of infrastructure but there is no published evidence that they do.
January 19, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Yes, the ever expanding non-permeable footprint, that seems to be ignored by all governing bodies.
The coming Virginia Park Estate development is within meters of the Elster Creek. It will be interesting to see if the permeable area of this development ends up being less than what’s there now. Melbourne Water should have a big interest in seeing that best water designs standards are complied with this development proposal.
January 23, 2017 at 9:15 AM
The intersection near my house floods nearly every time it rains. I brought this to the attention of Council. Eventually they replaced the top of the drain. The weight caused the old infrastructure to collapse. The gutter outside my house is so old the water doesn’t flow along it. Two years ago I was told that it would be fixed. Still waiting! Drainage will be a major problem in Glen Eira because of the replacement of gardens and trees with concrete thanks to poor planning and rampant development.