Flood issue faces a tangle
Attempts to address a flood issue in the Loddon River basin are facing a tangle of government departments and regulations.
A community group fears another major flood on the river could see a repeat of the 2022 inundation when 27 homes were hit.
The group wants to see vegetation cleared in a waterway that runs parallel to the Loddon River.
It is now 20 months since the Central Murray Environmental Floodplains Group became involved in trying to address the vegetative blockage in the Loddon River between the Patchell Bridges and the Sheepwash and Kerang weirs.
The blockage has progressively developed since the 2011 floods, and the committee believes it was a major contributing factor to the inundation of 27 homes on farmland.
But now irrigators fear without these projects, the federal government will wade back into the water market to strip even more water entitlements from irrigation communities to make up the shortfall.
