Introduction
The Lismore City Local Government Area, together with large parts of northern NSW and southern QLD, were impacted by unprecedented flooding events during February and March 2022. These floods have had devastating impacts across the community, with lives lost, homes and businesses destroyed and critical infrastructure sustaining major damage.
Lismore has been at the epicentre of this natural disaster, with flood levels unmatched in recorded history. With the major flood event of 2017 as a point of comparison, flood waters were nearly three metres higher than those that devastated the Lismore community at that time.
