Flood warnings

Many local residents should by now have received flood warnings from Council.

These are required by the State Government in its latest floodplain risk management document.

Both scientists and governments at an international level "have accepted that the enhanced greenhouse effect is likely to result in climate change".

This document states that flooding problems in coastal waters and estuaries will increase and that the altered weather patterns will increase the severity of storms.

Floods and drought will become more prevalent.

This being the case, it is amazing that there are people in our community who still want to remove the vegetation along the foreshore at Town Beach, Ettalong, and who wish to build restaurants and clubs right beside the water on Ferry Beach.

Perhaps their business interests prevented them from seeing the recent devastation in Louisiana.

Research papers back in 1998 had warned of the likelihood of such events in the USA but it would seem that people do not want to listen until it is too late.

Margaret Lund Woy Woy Bay