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Belongil Creek Flood Study

Belongil Creek is approximately 3km long and has a catchment of around 30 square kilometres. The township of Byron Bay is situated toward the eastern boundary of the catchment with most of the development on higher ground. The transport of catchment runoff to the estuary is influenced by numerous man-made drains and infrastructure. These include the Union Drain, the Byron Bay town drain (or Butler Street Drain), the North Coast Railway line, Ewingsdale Road and numerous bridges and culverts.

Four climate change scenarios were examined during the course of this study:

  1. No sea level change, no increase in rainfall intensities
  2. Lower bound IPCC sea level rise estimate with 20% increase in rainfall intensities
  3. Mid range IPCC sea level rise estimate with 20% increase in rainfall intensities
  4. Upper bound IPCC sea level estimate with 20% increase in rainfall intensities.

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Additional Information

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Title Belongil Creek Flood Study
Publication Date 12 November 2009
Themes Land and Resource Management
Spatial Extent
© OpenStreetMap contributors
Council/LGA Byron Shire Council
Author/ Prepared by SMEC
Publish date 19 June 2019
Update date 27 June 2019
Approval State Approved
Submitted for approval 19 June 2019
Submitted by Akhil Sud
Approved 27 June 2019
Approved by jhudson
Identifier 34b4579c-68b7-4d82-8576-874f8fa59bb8