Supplementary information - documents checked for relevance to levees as background research for Building walls around flood problems: the place of levees in Australian flood management
Research outputs and artefacts
29 May 2015
This document consists of notes on policies and legislation that were studied as background research into provisions relating to levees, published as:
Wenger, C., 2015, “Building walls around flood problems: the place of levees in Australian flood management”, Australian Journal of Water Resources, Vol. 19 No. 1.
Documents surveyed include: legislation, regulations, guidelines, policies, strategies, programs and assessment / approval documents from Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. A small number of Commonwealth documents were also checked, especially those cross-referenced by State documents. The survey did not include State flood review and inquiry reports (post 2010-11) or Commonwealth disaster resilience provisions. These were analysed separately and where relevant are cited in the journal article.
Some documents are specific to levees. However others are less directly linked. For example, many concern flood-related planning legislation (as strong planning controls may prevent the future need for levees). Provisions relating to ‘levee-like structures’, where flood mitigation is not the primary purpose, also required a broader search. To restrict scope, provisions checked were generally limited to embanked channels for irrigation delivery, storage and drainage. Transport infrastructure was not specifically investigated. However, neither was it deliberately excluded.