A family has been rescued from a sinking boat amid flooding on the River Murray, with the state government announcing $10,000 in grants to small businesses experiencing a downturn.
The SES said it came to the aid of three adults and a child in a sinking vessel in Blanchetown on Monday.
A member of the public pulled the child to safety on a jet ski, while the adults clung onto trees to wait for the SES rescue team.
"The SES understands they were attending their personal property to retrieve some furniture and it just reinforces the importance of some of these restrictions, particularly around the compulsory wearing of life jackets on the River Murray if you must be on the river," SES chief officer Chris Beattie said.
Flows dropping
The state government said flows across the border had been dropping for three days, which suggests the peak has passed Renmark.
"It hasn't eventuated to a 1956 level, it is still the biggest volume of water that we have seen come across the border in over 50 years in the state of South Australia," SA Premier Peter Malinauskas said.
However, the water will peak at towns along the length of the river for the next two to three weeks.
So far, the Renmark levees have held up, but smaller ones have been failing, flooding homes and properties.
River Murray businesses that have experienced a downturn of at least 30 per cent over a three-month period will be eligible for the $10,000 cash grant.
"Today's new announcement is another alternative for a small business that has stayed open," SA treasurer Stephen Mullighan said.
"The last thing we want to see if people being knocked around so much by the floods that they don't want to trade anymore in the Riverland."
The support package is on top of $50 million worth of grants announced earlier this year.
Levee fails in Murraylands
Meanwhile a levee has failed in Mypolonga, sending water into agricultural flats and some SA Power infrastructure behind it.
The SES issued a flood Watch and Act message for the communities of Woodland and Mypolonga, north of Murray Bridge, late on Monday night, warning there may be a need to evacuate.
"If the situation worsens, you may be isolated or flooded and it may not be safe to leave. It may be too dangerous for emergency services to assist you," the SES said.
"The Mypolonga Township levee, running along Hannaford Terrace and North Bokara Road, is likely to become engaged."
Mr Beattie said several private levees were at risk of breaching, including the Riverglen levee at the White Sands caravan park south of Murray Bridge.
"We don't think there's too many homes that are at risk from this levee although parts of the caravan park will be flooded if it fails," he said.
An evacuation warning will be issued today if the levee looks like it will fail.
