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February 7th, 2012 
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Floodwaters in the southern Queensland town of St George continued to rise on Tuesday afternoon, creeping dangerously close to the height of the town’s makeshift dirt levee.
The Balonne River had reached 13.85 metres by 4:00am local time, and was predicted to peak at around 14 metres on Tuesday afternoon.
“We’re expecting to see it keep rising during today with a peak expected some time today,” Senior hydrologist Chris Leahy said. “Not quite sure of the exact timing. It might have started to slow up a little overnight, but it’s still rising at a fairly similar rate to what it was doing yesterday.”
Over 2,000 of the township’s residents were forced to evacuate on Sunday, and sheltered in evacuation centres in Dalby and Brisbane to anxiously await news of the peak .
“I was told, ‘You’re going whether you like it or not’. I really didn’t want to move or leave my place because I don’t know what I’m going to go home to,” said resident, Mary Stanton, who was housed at a showgrounds in Brisbane.
Lenore Banks and her three young children were airlifted out of St George on Monday morning. Her husband was one of about 400 people who ignored the mandatory evacuation and stayed behind. Many of them helped build a four-kilometre-long dirt levee on the edge of the town yesterday.
“This is the boys’ probably third flood each so they’re sort of old hands at it,” said Mrs Banks. “But I don’t know whether I’d have a dry house or if it [the flood] would be through the house and wreck all the kids’ stuff.”
Around 400 people ignored the mandatory evacuation and stayed in their homes. Many helped build the four-kilometre-long dirt levee on the edge of the town.
The town’s mayor, Donna Stewart, says she’s confident the levee will protect most homes, but about 50 properties outside the embankment have been flooded.
“I know from the last flood,” she said. “When it receded those houses that had water in it; it was just a really huge mess. And some of the householders still hadn’t returned from the beginning of last year to those homes.”
With much of St George deserted, extra police have been sent to the town to patrol the streets. Commissioner Bob Atkinson says emergency services have kept a close eye on the town overnight.
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