Flooded Farms Cause Loss To Businesses
HOW the banking-up of water on lowland farms in flood times caused direct loss to Richmond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1954
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Low Cost of Reducing Flood Loss Surprising
Not the least pleasantly surprising feature of the report on the survey of ways and means of mitigating "nuisance" floods on the river flats…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Chamber Keen On Flood Work
Members of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce at their last meeting listened with great interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conclusions From Flood Survey On River Flats
Recommendations submitted in more diet ailed form in the Flood Mitigation Survey report are broadly summarised by the survey engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scheme To Isolate Bottoms From Small Floods
Isolation of Pitt Town Bottoms boding from Mackenzies Creek and South Creek at periods of "nuisance" floods, is recommended in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Draining Storm Water From Lowlands Area
Drainage of stormwater accumulating at intervals on an area of Richmond Lowlands around "Biddle's Lagoon" and the "College drain" is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Effect Of Dam On Future District Floods
Some very Informative comments on tine probable effect in future floods in this district of the completion of the Warragamba Dam appear in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Interesting Facts Form Flood Survey Report
That the river bed at Windsor Bridge Is about six feet below mean sea level is one of a number of Interesting facts given In the Flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Publicity Does Not Affect Flood Grants
The amount of publicity a flood received did not in any way affect the subsequent decision as to the amount of Government assistance the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Methods Of Implementing Flood Mitigation
The flood mitigation suggestion embodied in the survey report could be carried out either toy a Drainage Union formed for the purpose, or…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms Break Dry Spell
A SERIES of storms during past weak resulted in least three inches of rain over the district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Earth Offered For Flood Mitigation
An offer of enough soil to form the proposed earth bank to block off Mackenzie's Hollow wag made at the conference at Richmond on the Flood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Consulted In Flood Mitigation Moves
No moves are now made by engineers in any Mood mitigation scheme without consulting the farmers concerned, as "farmers are more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council To Seek Finance For Flood Mitigation
The Windsor Council has agreed to undertake the task of implementing the recommendations for flood mitigation in this district, as outlined by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shire Flood Survey Being Asked
A flood mitigation survey for the Wilberforce-Freeman's Reach section of Colo Shire is being requested by the Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Main Concern Is Floods' Effects On Roads
Only direct interest of both the Department of Main Roads and Colo Shire Council in floods was the effects of these on roads under their care, it…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Chamber and Flood Mitigation
FLOOD mitigation is often in the forefront at Richmond's Chamber of Commerce meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Relief Grant Totals Were Not Detailed
Figures received regarding flood relief grants to Colo Shire. and other councils were"not a fair comparison," a councillor asserted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Own Farm Main Source Of Road Flooding
The farm off a complainant who seemed damages from the council was the main source off focal surface water flooding an adjoining road, it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Thought to Be Struck During Storm
APPARENTLY struck by lightning during a storm at North Richmond on Monday afternoon, a young man…
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