Kembla St flooding frustration | Illawarra Mercury September 6, 2024
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00:00So as I was saying, if we go back and get that audit done and go back far enough, we
00:04can find out how far it was since they last cleaned it out.
00:09Then we can also see why they have stopped cleaning it out or wanted to stop people cleaning
00:13it out.
00:14Has that reason worked?
00:15Has it not worked?
00:17Find an actual flood study expert who can turn around and go, no, it's actually good
00:20to have the reeds in there, but we need to change something down the line.
00:23Or if it's bad to have the reeds in there, we need to get it back cleaned out.
00:27Because it could be that the reeds are holding it back, or the reeds could actually be helping
00:31not make our flood even worse.
00:33So until we actually know and see the report, I can't say, look, I'll clean it out.
00:39I'll say, I need to find out what the problem is and then show the general manager, look,
00:45this is what's come out.
00:46You need to actually really focus on this because we can't keep having guys and businesses,
00:51houses and businesses flood all the time.
00:54It's just not fair in the community.
00:57And this is the bottom of everything.
01:00Everything's flowing down to this side because everything's closing in.
01:04So if this is the problem here, and it banks up, it keeps banking up, then eventually it's
01:10just going to keep getting up.
01:12And we have to stop that.