I thought this was reasonably balanced given the source. My key takeaway was ‘stop putting people in harm’s way’ rather than support for raising the dam.

I wouldn’t be relying on Sky News to give a factual and accurate representation.

Thank you for sharing Nathan, and listening to both sides it's obvious to me that the Warragamba Dam is the key to alleviating 2 huge problems at once. Sydney’s primary water supply has had water restrictions many times due to lack of storage which could also serve as Flood mitigation. Build a new dam elsewhere for storage and have the WDam reduce to 60%. or raise the existing wall which would make far more sense. Either way, we must do something! Doing nothing is far more damaging financially and environmentally for all affected by droughts & floods! People's own biases against development aren't solving the issue for those of us in affected areas.

I thought this was very good, but barely scratches the surface with respect to evacuation routes, and their inadequacy.

I hope the State Government step up and for fill the promise of gravely needed funding to help Pitt Town and other parts of the Hawkesbury like Lower Portland, Colo, Sackville, Wisemans Ferry where many people are still displaced and without power and water, Pitt Town is not the only area in dire straits its all the low lying area townships and river developments 😓

Thanks for all the hard work you do for our area

I am sorry Nathan but Sky news are not known for using facts,.........

I missed the first 2 eps do u know if Sky will be broadcasting an encore of it at all??

And, therefore there are lessons to be learned from history (including flood records) and NOT keep developing in the flood plain/valley where the models already show what can be inundated.

Get off the Climate change crap. It’s been happening all through out our history. It’s a flood plain.

The same broadcaster that wants fossil fuel to remain and dismisses climate change. 🤪

Sky News 😂 top shelf journalism there.

Rob Bray

You have got to admire an independent councillor

And the plan to raise Warragamba will only give them further reason to keep building on the flood plain which WILL still flood no matter how high the dam wall goes.

Good call out Nathan.. Cross fingers something will be done to help this family

When I submitted my d.a for my property, I needed to get a hydrology report, environmental report etc. Is a development like this exempt from these studies? Clearly something terrible has gone wrong and the purpose of all these expensive studies is to prevent a disaster like this!

Hawkesbury Council is an incompetent council. And seems to encourage developers to do what they like when they like if they like. We are living in a period of self centred greedy people who care very little about the people in the community . It is beyond belief that the council staff are not answering or responding to these matters. It is unconscionable . Hawkesbury Council needs to be thoroughly investigated .

Well done for brining this to the forefront. There are many with the same opinion. We are not flooding like we use to.

It appears that most government bodies will allow developers to get away with almost anything. Ahh the almighty dollar. Council should have been on site and aware of these types of issues. That’s why council are there.

Thanks for bring this up . There a lot of things we dont know about due to our busy lifestyles with work etc. This is an absolute joke. Council putting money first b4 the people.

Council is hopeless ,they approved a house built in a watercourse , a few houses down from me , regardless of submissions by neighbours, which included photos and videos ,it was approved and during the recent heavy rains ,the inevitable happened ,the slab was inundated by water . The irony is that while council said they had no record of a watercourse ,the inspector that came out to check my septic , had to make sure it was far enough from the watercourse ,that doesn't exist 🙄 Do the people that make the yes/no call ,actually have qualified experience in what they're asked to approve ?

Leanne O'Brien

Terry Gaudron Colleen McGrath coll

I cleaned my boots off after walking in my paddock of cows. I could have sworn I scraped off the Hawkesbury councilors and staff. The stench from this was undesirable. Let’s clean up this beautiful town by cleaning out all the 💩 at the council chambers. Useless bottem feeders.

So my house sits above 1-100 level and been flooded by Hawkesbury city council Pitt town basin. But Nathan won’t help me!!.

The most immediate thing that could happen and hasn't, is mitigation. The data shows that we are currently in a rain cycle yet they refuse to change legislation to allow mitigation. It's almost like they want it to [email protected][email protected] We are also still in level 1 water restrictions as they realise that if it suddenly stops raining today, they isn't enough water for Sydney, even with the desalination plant. We have been arguing about this stupid dam wall raising for years now and still nothing has been done. All this extra water being flushed through the system and we haven't been able to work out how to store it safely for our every growing population? I would like to hope that if the dam wall EVER successfully gets built, that the change in legislation goes hand in hand as I can imagine that would easily turn into some sort of cash grab for the government 🤔

So we are expecting to have more rains and floods. So raise the dam.. What happens when that then gets full. It's not flood mitigation 🤦

If you raise the wall of Warragamba Dam, you are creating another problem for thousands of homes that didn’t get affected by the flooding last time but will most definitely come if overflow of the extra extended section will flood so many kms further than the last because of the extra water it’s got on board, waterways need to create a new way of channeling the water a different direction. Things will be so much worse for people who are already struggling after being hit 2times already. I’m actually in an area of the Hawkesbury which is reasonably high so I’m not as affected as some. But I do get cut off to most areas due to landslides and flooding. It just affects me in different ways

What about those choke points downstream? Has anyone considered major reconstruction to allow easier flow for flood waters?

Ok let’s use the current dam for mitigation NOW! Change the legislation to be able to use Warragamba Dam for flood mitigation for extreme weather conditions.

What about dredging the river like they used to do in the past. It is well overdue & could help reduce the choke points further upstream

Yep, raising the wall a second time on 1950's foundations is a great idea, everyone should get a free boat before you do it.

Build a bloody dam.... Are we waiting for a continual ground hog day situation which is already happening. Why you are voted in to actually act and action not just promise!!!! Things need to be done RIGHT NOW stop running stories and posts on Facebook DO SOME ACTUAL ACTION otherwise it's a load of bullshit recycled over and over again!!!

No Nathan, raising the damn wall is not the answer.

So if we know this in the data and the lived experiences of those who have lived through multiple floods. What is the hold up. Who or what is preventing this needed work.

How many homes were affected during last floods? I thought it was 100s not 1000s

Thanks for sharing!

Raelene Hodgskin - SKY NEWS!!! PANIC!!!

Ridiculous Raising the wall will only benefit land developers

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