Des wants to raise his flood-hit home, but he's been told the floor needs to be as high as his roof is now
Since floodwaters reached a metre above the floorboards of his high-set home, Mr Lawlor feels like he is stuck in a recurring nightmare.
"I said 'that's great, that's what I want to do,' and then they said 'but the stipulation is that you have to raise the house above the new flood level'."Mr Lawlor says he was told he would have to raise his home several metres higher than the 2022 flood level of 23 metres to qualify for the funding.
A Department of Public Works spokesperson said as of 20 February, 5,897 registrations had been received from across the state, and 4,906 were still involved in various stages of the program. "They've raised their property to the equivalent flood height of 23 metres, but the criterion for that funding is, I think, 25 metres.Call to reconsider flood modelling
"A 23-metre flood was the highest flood we have had in living memory, so the chances of that repeating are a lot lower than other floods below the 20-metre mark," he says.
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