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NT government ignored pleas to relocate Pigeon Hole from floodplain, mayor says

Brian Pedwell says flood-ravaged Pigeon Hole should have been moved to higher ground years ago. (ABC News: Jesse Thompson)

The mayor of a region that has been devastated by floodwaters says houses could have been saved if the Northern Territory government had listened to residents and built them away from a known flood zone. 

The entire population of Pigeon Hole, home to about 150 people, was forced to evacuate last week after major flooding inundated the small remote community south-west of Katherine.

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