Some dams have additional capacity for flood mitigation, like Wivenhoe Dam in Queensland. Unfortunately that’s not fool proof either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org

Some dams have additional capacity for flood mitigation, like Wivenhoe Dam in Queensland. Unfortunately that’s not fool proof either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Queensland_floods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932011_Queensland...