Floods victims await inquiry report

Ipswich : United Kingdom | Mar 15, 2012 at 3:48 PM PDT

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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Story continues below The new hearings focused on claims dam engineers may have mishandled water releases and compounded the flooding that hit Ipswich and Brisbane in January last year. The inquiry heard allegations that the engineers didn't follow the dam's operating manual and then colluded to... FULL ARTICLE AT Sydney Morning Herald

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