'This water is pummeling down towards Launceston'

ABC News 24's Joe O'Brien is in Launceston , and said water levels continued to cause serious concern.





"This is the South Esk River at the Trevallion dam. Further up the South Esk River there have been rapid rises through the morning at a place called Perth," he said.





"So there is more water coming down this system. It's already well over the spillway, as you can see. This water is pummeling down towards Launceston.





"This was the problem previously with Launceston in terms of floods, that 1929 flood that caused so much damage and there were so many people killed — the waters were 12 metres through some parts of the city. This dam has stopped that to an extent.



