A NSW court has found in favour of almost 7000 Queenslanders after floods of a “biblical” proportion struck their homes and businesses in 2011.
NSW Supreme Court Justice Robert Beech-Jones found the 6800 people, who sued the Queensland government, Seqwater and Sunwater, were victims of negligence.
Justice Beech-Jones accepted engineers tasked with managing Wivenhoe and Somerset dams in the lead up to and during the devastating deluge in January 2011 failed in their duty of care.
He said they did not follow the dam operating manual that they themselves had helped write. No cost decision has been made with the case to return to court in February.
More to come
-with AAP
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