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By Tony Moore
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Some of Brisbane's trendiest suburbs have been revealed as the most prone to flooding.
Brisbane City Council this morning released new computerised mapping which showed 28,651 properties would suffer from water flowing through their yards or houses in a one-in-50-year flood, similar to those in May of this year.
Homes in Coorparoo, Newstead, Clayfield, Camp Hill, Paddington, West End, Taringa and Indooroopilly were among the worst affected.
The maps, which have never been released in Brisbane, show how flooding affects every street in the city.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said while most people would be aware of how localised flooding affected their properties, new residents and people renting properties would be in the dark.
"All they have to do is log on and check their property. This will be particularly useful for renters who move into areas and might be unaware of how water flows during storms," he said.
"You will be able to drill down and look at the actual impacts on your property.
"There are many people who have only arrived in Brisbane in the last three or four years.
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"They have not yet seen the sort of rain events and flood events that we can have...
"It is a computerised tool to help people to make decisions when they are buying or selling properties, when they are renovating or upgrading their homes.
"And also when they are talking to their insurers to make sure that they are appropriately insured."
Cr Newman said any impact on insurance premiums was a matter for insurance companies.
"This is simply stating what is already been happening historically for hundreds of thousands of years in these catchments; it is just that in the last 180 years we have just gone and built across these catchments," he said.
He said residents weighed up the flood risk when they made decisions on where they wanted to live.
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The mapping is a computerised model, developed from the Suburban Mapping Taskforce, chaired by Professor Colin Apelt, which investigated flooding in Rocklea in 2004 and recommended people have better access to flood information.
The computerised mapping shows which areas would be affected by both one in 50 and one in 100 year floods.
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