Queensland floodwaters flow into SA

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23 April 2025 With a floodwater levee wrapped around their town, residents in the remote South Australian community of Innamincka say they are stocked up and ready for weeks in isolation. The township of less than two dozen people in South Australia’s far north-east has been cut off by road by significant floodwaters flowing through from Queensland. The Strzelecki Track, the 472-kilometre rural road connecting Innamincka with Lyndhurst, is closed and impassable east of Moomba, according to the State Emergency Service (SES). Innamincka Trading Post co-manager Jayne Whaite said the main priority had been ensuring sufficient fuel supplies. ”We stocked up as much as we could to help out with fuel and food items and stuff like that.” Ms Whaite said Innamincka’s isolation during tourist season would have a “huge impact on the business” but said “people’s lives are more important than turning the till over”. Janet Brook, co-owner of the Cordillo Downs Station, said not being able to move cattle was one of the biggest impacts of the roads being cut off. “We don’t know at this stage when those roads will open up to be able to get cattle out,” she said. SES field liaison officer, Matt Warne, said volunteers had arrived in Innamincka on April 5 to assist with flood preparations and supply food, fuel and fodder for livestock. Outback pilot Trevor Wright has been observing the floodwaters in South Australia’s far north-east for the last week. He said the floodwaters coming down from Queensland have a “huge velocity behind it”.

Greek Tribune Adelaide, South Australia