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July 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A POTENTIAL disaster appears to have been averted overnight after work to ease pressure on a hectare-size dam threatening to dump 20 megalitres of water on to houses below.
Police and State Emergency Service volunteers went door-to-door along Scenic Hill Rd at Huonville after being alerted that the dam was leaking just after 9am yesterday.
Residents were told to leave their homes immediately.
“It was just panic,” evacuated resident Rhonda Purton said from the temporary evacuation centre set up at the Huon Valley PCYC yesterday.
“We just grabbed what we could and left.”
Mrs Purton’s granddaughters Haylee, 8, and Montanna Connors, 7, were also waiting for the all-clear last night after being collected from school and taken to the evacuation centre.
“I hope my animals are OK,” Haylee said. “We don’t know if our bird is inside or outside.”
The dam, roughly the size of about 20 Olympic swimming pools, is on private property owned by an interstate resident.
Police attempted to locate the man yesterday morning to advise what was unfolding after a Huonville resident noticed water pouring downhill through paddocks above a new housing development situated along Scenic Hill Rd.
Earthworks were carried out by excavators throughout yesterday afternoon to increase the size of the dam’s spillway and lower the water level, thereby relieving pressure on the dam wall.
The Huon Valley Council and the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment were to reassess the safety of the dam once the water level was reduced.
“Residents were asked not to return home for the rest of the day,” officer-in-charge of the evacuation operation Ian Lindsay said yesterday.
Judy Flakemore and her son, Gordon, were among those taking shelter at the evacuation centre.
“We just grabbed the computer and left,” Mrs Flakemore said.
“I was at my daughter’s house at Dover when I got a call from Gordon saying the SES and the police are at the door and we had to leave the house. We’re just hoping the place is OK and we can go home soon.”
Residents were given the all-clear to return to their homes about 7pm.
Despite ongoing efforts to stem the flow, water was clearly visible early last night streaming down the hillside, through the hillside housing development and on to the main road.
Police were unwilling to speculate as to the extent of a potential worst case scenario but it was clear given the slope and the amount of water in the dam that homes in the path of any sudden release of water would have been at high risk of [email protected]
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