Queensland’s state government has released a new flood-resilient building guide as well as a Brisbane River Strategic Floodplain Management Plan.
Raising and wet-proofing houses to protect against damage from floods will be encouraged by Queenslanders and temporary barriers will be put up with the aim to protect parts of the Brisbane CBD from inundation.
The report estimates that during a one in 100-year flood in the Brisbane River flood plain, 17,300 buildings would be flooded, two-thirds of which would be in the Brisbane City Council area.
Ipswich City Council chief executive David Farmer says the strategic plan was created following the 2011 floods and it has “taken four years to produce [as] there's been 50,000 computer model simulations and we've researched 134,000 properties that have been affected by flooding."