RODNEY Taylor stands on the levee bank between the Murray-Darling junction and Cadell Street and says he has no doubt that Wentworth's defences are more than a match for this flood, and he should know.

A couple of weeks ahead of his 80th birthday, the Dareton man and former Curlwaa irrigator saw the big flood of 1974 and the monster of '56, and believes the wide, high and well established levees ...