Mildura residents outraged as floodwaters return
Sunday December 18, 2011 - 18:15 EDT
Mildura in February, 2011 - Audience submitted
Homes and businesses are flooded after the north-west Victorian town of Mildura received twice its average monthly rainfall in two hours.
Storms brought nearly 60 millimetres of rain, causing extensive flash flooding.
The Mildura Council says several pipelines which could have prevented the flood damage will be ready as soon as next month.
But local residents are angry that they have been flooded again, in Victoria.
"It's pretty pathetic. It's been nine months now and people are still getting flooded," one resident said.
"It's happened constantly over the last 11 years. It's got to a point of being ridiculous."
"It's probably about the seventh time it's happened over the last 18 months," another resident said.
"We're sort of all getting sick of it here now. I was actually going to go fishing today but I may as well put the boat in here and just take it for a run."
Thousands of people across the state were forced from their homes in January by heavy rain.
An interim report into the flooding found the State Emergency Services was "overwhelmed" by the scale of the emergency and the CFA was forced to take on extra responsibilities.
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