http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2012/07/20/letter-sticking-our-heads-in-the-sands-of-the-todd/ The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide - Chicago Tribune. Sat, 18 May 2013 05:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2012/07/20/letter-sticking-our-heads-in-the-sands-of-the-todd/#comment-7280 Maxine Cook Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:01:09 +0000 http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=8300#comment-7280 I too was surprised when I saw them constructing the Imparja building on that block using under ground parking. I had seen the above ground house of Driver’s get flooded in very small rive flows.
They have built up the bridge access roads in front of the building but the whole bridge setup is going to cause a bottleneck for a large flood!
The water was lapping very close under the bridge one year and the police stopped us crossing the bridge as they were unsure of safety if the water rose ant higher.
What is going to happen if if it does? The casino bridge caused a bottleneck in The Gap area which flooded the flats opposite one year. The water coming from the Hidden Valley area used to spread out over the Chifley Hotel area when it flooded. Now that it is contained by the large drain banks, is this not going to cause the water flowing from it to push the Todd water to spread more to the west, and cause it to be deeper?
As they have narrowed our water course they need to remove some of the sand banks to allow more water to flow along it, otherwise it will be inevitable that it will break its banks if we have another good rainfall.
Damming the Todd like they wanted to do years ago would have prevented a lot of future water problems with both flooding and lack of water in the town area.

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