About 450 million litres of raw sewage – enough to fill 180 Olympic swimming pools – flowed undetected from a burst council pipe into the Albert River ... and South East Compliance executive ...

The dams are spilling, the ground is sodden, and more is rain on the way for parts of Queensland ... He says the south-east is on track for the wettest December since 2010, when 479mm of rain ...

A second leak has occurred in the northern Gold Coast pipe network - which burst causing waste to be dumped for months in the Albert River ... main crossing the river just east of the Pacific ...