Six company had been taken to safer floor at about 10pm, whereas 4 others had been moved to emergency lodging.
The alarm was raised yesterday when water began to seep by the non-public levee on the Riverbend Caravan Park.
Engineers arrived to evaluate the flood barrier earlier than they found a wide range of points with the levee, which prompted an emergency evacuation.
The caravan park mentioned in a press release at this time they had been evacuated by the State Emergency Service however the levee didn’t break and the park was not inundated with water. However the park has remained closed since.
South Australia Police commissioner Grant Stevens mentioned an engineering inspection was carried out final night time “because of seepage on the levee”.
“The decision was made that the integrity of that levee was at risk,” Stevens mentioned.
SES chief officer Chris Beattie mentioned the evacuation was carried out as quickly because the report got here in “identifying that the levee was unsafe due to the defects throughout that levee”.
The SES has issued a warning that it’s doubtless different non-public levees may additionally fail when peak flows hit Renmark subsequent Wednesday.
