Beginning the flood cleanup at Belmont

Kelly Butterworth
Updated April 20 2017 - 2:39pm, first published 9:00am
FAMILY AFFAIR: Luke and Phil Orchard at home at Belmont, Rockhampton, where floodwaters have damaged more than 20km of fencing and 1250ha of land.
FAMILY AFFAIR: Luke and Phil Orchard at home at Belmont, Rockhampton, where floodwaters have damaged more than 20km of fencing and 1250ha of land.

IT WAS a slow and agonising wait for Phil Orchard, Belmont Research Station manager at Rockhampton, as he watched the river slowly rise in the aftermath of tropical cyclone Debbie. 

Kelly Butterworth

Rockhampton-based journalist covering all things ag.

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