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What happens when the levee is dry

TYNTYNDER landholders were unaware who was responsible for maintaining levee banks on Crown land along the Murray River until a government policy was unearthed.

Geoff Carson, who has lived in the area for 28 years, said that under policy 17D of the Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy, "levees on Crown land that are not being formally managed will be allowed to weather away".

"That was aler...

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