Since Saturday morning, up to 80mm of rain has raised river levels in the Katherine River catchment ... though thunderstorms will persist.” The Northern Territory Emergency Service (NTES ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the fight playing out over the Northern Territory's ... The Roper River runs east for 400 kilometers from the Katherine region to the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The catchment already supports significant agricultural development, which is focussed around Katherine ... base-flow of all rivers in the Northern Territory, and potentially the highest of any ...