QLD:Flood report backs Brisbane council: mayor

AAP General News (Australia)
08-01-2011
QLD:Flood report backs Brisbane council: mayor

BRISBANE, Aug 1 AAP - An interim report into Queensland's summer floods backs Brisbane
City Council's actions during the disaster, Lord Mayor Graham Quirk says.

Mr Quirk said the Queensland Flood Commission of Inquiry's interim report commended
council's early warning alert service, use of social media, and the doorknocking of homes
before the flood.

The report also cleared the council of any role in the release of water from Wivenhoe
and Somerset dams, he said.

The lord mayor said the report echoed council's own independent review released in March.

"Council is on track to implement 90 per cent of the 53 recommendations from our own
independent review by December this year," Mr Quirk said in a statement on Monday.

"I am confident we're already addressing the majority of recommendations from the state
government's inquiry, but we are now looking at these latest findings to see what further
practical measures we can take."

Mr Quirk said the council had updated property reports with the January flood levels
for 60,000 homes, reviewed flood standards to ensure houses were built above January's
flood level and given 200 council employees extra disaster management training.

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