Clean-ups in flood wake

Article from: The Sunday Tasmanian

MICHAEL STEDMAN, JARROD BEVAN and NICK CLARK

August 12, 2007 12:00am

RETREATING floodwaters have revealed a massive clean-up challenge for towns around the state this morning.

After a torrid 48 hours of rain, the Derwent and Huon rivers in the South both peaked yesterday and the swelling Mersey and Forth rivers in the North-West and Ringarooma River in the North-East drove many from their homes late on Friday night.

In some regions, the floods reached one-in-100-year levels.

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