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Sydney on flood alert

03.03.2012 [14:00]
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Baku, March 3 (AZERTAC). The rain that has hammered on New South Wales for the past summer has intensified over the past week and is now causing serious trouble.

75% of the state is at flood risk, 1.700 people have been evacuated and the Warragamba Dam has today reached a level of 100% -for the first time since 1998-, and has started to spill over.

That means that rivers will swell; especially the Macquarie River, Nepean River and Hawkesbury River. The population living close to the Hawkesbury River, that thus includes a string of suburbs in the northwestern part of Sydney, has been put on flood alert and be prepared to be evacuated.

The State Emergency Service (SES) has warned that probably thousands of people in the state need to be evacuated over the next days.