More than 1000 Kensington homeowners already in financial turmoil after their properties were declared flood-prone are now being forced to pay up to $1200 to hire their own land surveyors.
“Melbourne Water has put over 900 families in this awful situation, so Melbourne Water should pay these costs,” Sandell said. Kensington homeowner Donna Thompson, who lives with her husband and six-year-old son, said she was overwhelmed by the report she received from Melbourne Water for the townhouse she bought five years ago.
Kensington Banks was built near the Maribyrnong River in the late 1990s on land once occupied by abattoirs.revealed last month that new Maribyrnong River flood modelling from Melbourne Water had designated almost every home in Kensington Banks as at-risk, only 25 years after the award-winning urban renewal project was completed.The Kensington Banks development project received almost $11 million from the Keating government, including $8 million for flood mitigation.
Rivervue resident Stan Korkliniewski’s report for his Avondale Heights property shows maximum flood levels would increase by just over a metre between 2024 and 2100. Already, in 2022, the water reached about a metre high inside his home.
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