on the evening of 26 january, awoonga dam reached a new record water height level of . the citrus industry in the wide bay–burnett region was hit hard with losses totalling hundreds of millions of dollars, higher than the cost of the 2011 floods. in moreton bay, seagrass beds are expected to endure greater damage than from the 2011 floods, when is some place 80% of the seafloor vegetation was lost. sediment flows from the brisbane river were expected to be much higher in this flood, placing the bay's dugong population at risk.