A new set of national engineering guidelines for dealing with storm and floodwaters are bogged down in funding problems, while Victoria’s major flood strategy is more than two years behind schedule and still incomplete. Urban flooding is expected to become a bigger problem with climate change, with more intense rain events expected to occur more frequently, despite expectations of lower annual rainfall totals in many parts of Australia. Those concerns prompted the federal government and Engineers Australia to begin work recently on a new version of Australia’s prime engineering guidelines, a publication called Australian Rainfall and Run-Off. Read More
