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Water tipped to rise to extreme levels over Macrossan Bridge near Charters Towers

A veteran truckie is tipping flood water levels over the Macrossan Bridge along the Flinders Highway to go a lot higher with severe rain continuing to fall on North Queensland.

Located 25km from Charters Towers it normally has a flow of fresh water many metres under the bridge and is always busy with road transport vehicles and other traffic.

When I crossed it in mid-January, there was just a trickle of water flowing and campers had parked on the sand beside the river bed.

Others were fishing from the same area trying to catch a sooty grunter or a black bream which the Burdekin there is renowned for.

The Macrossan Bridge a month ago. Image: Alf Wilson

However, on February 2, veteran driver Laurie Seery, who is based at Charters Towers, sent me the pic at the top of this story which showed the road surface across it flooded.

“It is 1.5m above the road and expected to get higher tomorrow when water flows down from many areas upstream,” Seery said.

I told Seery that about 35 years ago I had travelled there by helicopter to do a story when it was 7m over.

Signs on the Charters Towers side indicate that extreme level.

“Don’t be surprised if it surpasses that level tomorrow (February 3),” Seery said.

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