River levels recede in Tasmania after flooding overnight

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River levels are receding in Tasmania, having peaked overnight but residents are still being urged to stay informed and keep across the latest warnings.

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00:00This whole area overnight was covered in water and it really has been receding even while

00:07we've been here.

00:08We've been here since about 5.30 this morning and the water really has receded back.

00:12That's the Bowls Club just over this way and then the River Derwent's actually on the other

00:16side of that.

00:17So the greens there of the Bowls Club are all underwater.

00:20There is a caravan park over that way that's underwater as well.

00:24And then we have houses this side and we just spoke to a resident that lives in this white

00:28house here.

00:29The water was about 30 centimetres up that wall of their property there.

00:33We were having a chat to her.

00:34She was saying even though the threat does seem to be over at this point, they've kept

00:39all their furniture chocked up for now, left up off the floor level to try to just make

00:44sure that everything is safe and dry.

00:46They were very relieved that they didn't get water into the house last night when there

00:51was that flood peak.

00:52Further upriver, just below Meadow Bank Dam, the river had peaked to about 8 metres and

00:59it was sustained up above the major flood level between midday yesterday and midnight

01:05before it started to recede.

01:06So there's a lot of relief here that even though there are some issues, there has been

01:11some inundation, some people have been isolated.

01:14There's a lot of relief that it is starting to ease off now and that people can hopefully

01:18start the clean up further along there.

01:21We were there earlier.

01:23There was a lot of debris over the road in that kind of residential area there.

01:28So there's going to be a huge clean up and that's right across the state.

01:31The whole state has really been impacted over an entire week really.

01:35So that's continuing.

01:37There is still ongoing efforts to restore power, to restore phone and internet services

01:42and even cleaning up trees and things like that.

01:44So the warnings are still in place.

01:47This area is at a watch and act and there are watch and acts in other areas across the

01:50state and advice level alerts as well.

01:53So plenty of work still to be done to recover from this wild weather.

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