We've placed houses where swamps used to be. Our main street in Cue is on the old river bed where hundreds of ounces of gold were found. No doubt there's still a lot under the bitumen. Now every time there's a downpour the main road is awash with gravel most likely contaminated with flecks of yellow. I was in Brisbane for the 1974 floods where many houses went completely under water. Nothing new about the rain and flooding, the only difference was where the idiots chose to develop land for housing and commercial use. Like many others it could have been a beautiful city if the flood plain was left as flood plain.
