A global review of research around the impacts of dams has found they are significantly harmful to diadromous species—fish, ...

and plans to strengthen Scotts Peak Dam afterwards. But a campaign to drain Lake Pedder will continue. In 2016, Hydro Tasmania completed a set of flood maps for towns on the Huon River.

Some of Tasmania's heaviest-ever rain has forced the evacuation of residents across the state, with rivers and dams bursting their banks. The state has been lashed with the same storm front that ...