Case studies

Roger Wagner has been left living in a caravan after almost three metres of water came rushing through his home and backyard business.

Deagon Dress Ups owner Katy Hardiman was just days away from opening her costume and equipment hire shop when the South East Queensland floods came through, leaving boxes of costumes, fabrics and handmade garments floating through the premises.  

After the extreme rain event in late February 2022 Josef Selway, co-owner of Blue & Grae – a business in Albion that creates hand-made leather goods – was expecting his workshop to flood and prepared for what was thought to be the worst case scenario by moving things upstairs or putting them on top of high workbenches.

For Austral Croissants owner Sylvain Desvignes things weren’t as bad the second time around but the 2022 South East Queensland floods still left his Rocklea factory with 20 centimetres of water through the bread manufacturing premises.

Weipa-Mapoon Road was a gravel formed road that provided the only access from the Mapoon community to the Peninsula Developmental Road.

The road was damaged in 2010 and 2013 events with total restoration costs from those two events in excess of $1.6 million.