The Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry interim report released on 1 August 2011 in itself appears reasonable. However, as expected, the media - with the classic wisdom of hindsight and needing to find someone to blame rather than Mother Nature - has unreasonably laid open the SEQW flood managers to litigation. The real issue appears to be: should the engineers have accepted the Bureau of Meteorology's predictions and dropped the level of Wivenhoe reservoir and risked ongoing severe water restrictions for the people of South-East Queensland, or, acted as they did and risked possible floods?
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