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“Water was gushing from Lake Alexandrina into a parched Lake Albert yesterday, prompting long-suffering locals to crack open the champagne and toast the Lower Lakes.
Environment Department workers have spent the past week removing reinforcing steel on the man-made embankment that separates the two lakes, ahead of the planned removal of about 100m of the 270m bund this week.
Environment Department chief executive Allan Holmes said a small, 5m slot was cut on Sunday to test the stability of the embankment.
“We found the bank was unstable and water started to flow through it,” he said.
The embankment progressively broke away under the intense water pressure and, by yesterday morning, sported a gaping hole at least 50m wide.”
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