New Flood Boats Needed
Colo Shire and Windsor Councils have applied for a £-for-£ government subsidy for their…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1964
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Concerned At Flood Boat Delay
Colo Shire Councillors are concerned that there are no flood boats available to run…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Planner Wants To Flood The Hawkesbury As A Re-Development Project
A fantastic scheme, which even the designer describes as complex and controversial, has been put forward to change the Hawkesbury Valley into a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hawkesbury Excluded From Federal Flood Mitigation Grants
All sections of the community have been stunned this week as rumour hardened into certainty that the Hawkesbury had been excluded from a £13 million flood mitigation programme…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commonwealth Flood Grants Deputy Premier Blames Councils
Speaking in the House last week, the Deputy Premier (Mr. Renshaw) claimed that the blame for the Hawkesbury district being excluded from Commonwealth flood -mitigation grants, rested squarely with local councils…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Signs Delayed
Although signs and markers for roads liable to flooding in Windsor Municipality have been ordered,…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Flood Of Protests To Council On Colo Bridge Issue
Colo Shire Council has received a flood of protests from Lower Portland residents against any suggestion that the Hawkesbury and Colo River…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Mitigation Have to Rely on State Aid
It appeared that councils in the Hawkesbury would have to rely on State Government aid…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Flood Mitigation Dam Petitioners Request For Delay Refused
Windsor Council has refused to delay the construction of a f[?]ood mitigation dam in…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Upper Colo Flood Records
Some interesting Colo River flood records taken at Upper Colo have been supplied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Flood Signs for Ferries D.M.R. Wants Council Co-operation
With the co-operation of councils affected, the Deparment of Main Roads hopes to…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →No Action From Council On Flood Mitigation
The Windsor Council shows no signs of taking any positive action to obtain the inclusion of the Hawkesbury River in Commonwealth-subsidised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Mitigation Bill Flood Records Available, Says M.h.r
A statement made recently in the Commonwealth Parliament during the debate on the Flood Mitigation Bill that there were no flood records available for the Hawkesbury River, was refuted in the House by the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Move for Flood Mitigation
A move to establish flood mitigation programme for the whole Hawkesbury Valley has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Editorial Flood Mitigation
AT last one of the councils along the Hawkesbury has made a move to start discussions on the possibility of forming a conference of interested councils to make a joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survey Will Assist Flood Forecasts
A survey of the river being made by an officer of the Commonwealth Meteorology…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Observers From Colo At Flood Meeting
Three observers from Colo Shire Council will attend a conference on flood mitigation works…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Torrential Rain Brings Local Flooding
Torrential rain over the whole of the central coast on Tuesday afternoon and night brought extensive local flooding to low-lying areas of the district and by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Date Set For Flood Conference
June 26 has been set as the date for the conference on flood mitigation, at which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →97 Years Ago White Men never Saw A Bigger Deluge In The Hawkesbury
âWomen and children may be seen walking about, some of them half naked, cold and hungry. The town is divided…
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