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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2016-11-15" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Bordertown Community Early Flood Warning System</name>
      <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000945">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Bordertown Community Early Flood Warning System</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Leader of the Opposition</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2016-11-15">
            <name>Bordertown Community Early Flood Warning System</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000946">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="1820">the Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) </by>(20 September 2016).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3122" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. I.K. HUNTER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <electorate id="">Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change</electorate>
        <questions>
          <question date="2016-11-15">
            <name>Bordertown Community Early Flood Warning System</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000947">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="3122">The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change):</by>  The Minister for Water and the River Murray has received the following advice:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000948">
          <inserted>The total cost of the Bordertown Flood Monitoring System project was $180,327. </inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000949">
          <inserted>Available data would suggest that the Tatiara Creek has flowed from the upper catchment to Bordertown 144 times throughout the period of record (1977-2016).</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000950">
          <inserted>The most recent significant flooding in Bordertown was in 2011 as reported in <term>The Advertiser</term> on 14 January 2011.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201611158cb97b45cfa04143b0000951" />
      </talker>
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