This was such a disappointing outcome.

I am going with Ned. Good on you. Donation made

Im calling Ned 🤣🤣 what a great cause x

An associated issue for the Macdonald Valley - Currently both the Macdonald River river level monitoring stations at Howes Valley (Station Number: 561036) and St Albans (Station Number: 061353) are excluded from the BOM Flood Warning system, so BOM+SES cannot provide community alerts based on local data. For a few years now this has been raised with both State and Federal representatives, and the former Federal Minister's response provided to the State representative. This community needs action on this.

That’s a pretty disappointing response, but seems fairly typical of the “if it doesn’t generate $$$$ then it’s intrinsically valueless” world that we live in.

Considering they are funded by the Federal government, the information should be free. There is something wrong here, seriously wrong. This is "double dipping", as the Federal money is via the taxpayer, so the taxpayer them has to pay again for the data. Corruption???????

Pay twice, your taxes at work!

Just completely privatise them both and we can just pay for everything. 🙄

Try the Hawkesbury Flood Statistics Unit on FB and go to their website page.

Advocate for the roads

This may happen in a decade. Currently, the dam sits at 100% full. Rain is falling (La Nina). Will you be helping the community downstream of the dam by lowering the water level now? This will provide an operational buffer and significantly reduce the damage if we end up flooding again. As heavy rain is forecast throughout the catchment you will get your water back.

Great to hear, and this project should have been classified CRITICAL from day one! Then it would be getting built or finished by now! HOWEVER the SILENCE is DEAFENING regarding lowering Full Storage Level NOW! Even if it’s only by 5m to 7m as an immediate mitigation measure, which has almost zero chance of not being replenished! As we speak the dam is sitting at 100% just waiting to spill with no end of rain in sight for the next 2 months at least! This is if nothing else a very bad and uncaring look for everyone potentially impacted if a major flood does occur, and you can change this situation with a simple decision from yourself and the Water Minster NOW! PLEASE make it happen if you want any chance of winning the next election!

Just goes to show how out of touch the government and developer connected councils are to the people who they are suppose to represent and the majority who actually live in and around the area have agreed, they want the water level lowered a few metres and as we wont have drought for a few more years yet, that is the better option

Not sure, but I think the flow of the Colo river in flood would affect the flow in the Hawkesbury so should we look at flood mitigating the Colo???

I would find this credible if any of the findings in the 2022 flood report were also being addressed but alas it’s political blame shifting desperation.

What is being done for mitigation in the meantime? The premier wants to spruik an unfunded future plan with no known delivery date but where is the plan for now?

It will take ten years to raise the dam wall, by which time we could be in drought. The only immediate solution is management

Wank wank , wait until you see how much it’s going to cost then you see the change of mind

The Minister said that lowering the water level would cause a drought. I thought lack of rain caused a drought but we must believe the gubberment. Dom also said raising the wall would "provide opportunities for development". A Freudian slip?

Get it built, much cheaper than keep paying out flood money

Sort out this Killarney Chain of Ponds crap, since development has occurred east of McGraths Hill the flooding is quicker and higher than ever, they have piped a lot of the area under development which doesn’t allow water to soak in and sends it our way which affects McGraths Hill & Oakville as one. That would essentially reduce the need for the suburb to evacuate if they could do something about that

What would they do if they couldn't get the money from the British government.

Wait! Did our premier just say that raising the dam wall "protects Sydney's water supply in times of drought"? I thought you (Nathan) said the plan was to not raise the water level. That the dam wall extension would only be used in times of heavy rainfall to catch the extra water so that it could be released gradually later on. How does raising the dam wall have any impact on our water supply during a drought? Unless the real plan to raise the wall, and then raise the water level. If it is, what's the point? A raised wall AND water level wouldn't have prevented the latest crop of floods -it would have prolonged them, as even more water caught behind the dam wall would have needed to be sent over the spillway. So has Mr Perrottet got it wrong? Or are we being taken for a ride?

is it even possible? Will need geological, engineering surveys first. Just lower level before big rain events

The who's going to pay fight. It's not good enough. Please some of you politicians go live in the flood affected areas when there is heavy rain coming. Fight the fights these aussies have to go through every single time. You all should be ashamed of yourself.

Can you let 20% of the water out in the mean time while we wait for any action? Basic risk mitigation

With such a small country as Australia is,no room anywhere to build another dam and pump it between the two. Imagine if we lived on/in a country with miles and miles of land then we could build several dams and connect them all together with pipelines….mmmmmmm or is that to hard for government to think of..;( Sad times to be alive.

Corruption! You need to Build a new damn and you know it- cover-up clowns

No thanks Dom

Is Climate Change a REAL CRISIS? or is it a story to keep us in fear? Was Covid man made? Was it being created back in the 1980's? Was it a bioweapon? Is everything as we are told or are we the victims of propaganda? There is a French book entitled L’Avenir De La Vie (“The Future of Life”) by Michel Salomon, who is a journalist and doctor -back in 1981 he interviewed twenty scientists including seven Nobel Prize winners, and which thus relates his conversation with Jacques Attali, who at the time was the adviser to François Mitterrand. In that interview, it provides a clear warning of how they look down upon us, the great unwashed, which is the blueprint for what they are doing using Covid-19 to change the world economically and politically. This is what Jaques Attali told him during that interview in 1981.... “In the future it will be about finding a way to reduce the population. We will start with the old, because as soon as he is over 60-65 years of age, man lives longer than he produces and costs society dearly. Then the weak and then the useless who do nothing for society because there will be more and more of them, and especially finally the stupid ones. Euthanasia targeting these groups; euthanasia will have to be an essential instrument of our future societies, in all cases. Of course, we cannot execute people or set up camps. We will get rid of it by making them believe it is for their own good. Too large a population, and for the most part unnecessary, is something economically too expensive. Socially, it is also much better for the human machine to come to a screeching halt rather than gradually deteriorating. We won’t be able to give intelligence tests to millions and millions of people, you can imagine! We will find something or cause it, a pandemic that targets certain people, a real economic crisis or not, a virus that will affect the old or the big, it doesn’t matter, the weak will succumb to it, the fearful and the stupid will believe it and ask to be treated. We will have taken care to have planned the treatment, a treatment that will be the solution. The selection of idiots will thus be done by themselves: they will go to the slaughterhouse on their own. “ @The future of life” – Jacques Attali, 1981, interview with Michel Salomon.