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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1965

22 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Premier Approves Flood Survey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 January 1965 · page 1

The Premier (Mr Renshaw) has agreed to the setting up of an interdepartmental committee to carry out a flood mitigation survey of the…

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Flood Trust Replies to Mayor (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1965 · page 2

Sir, — Recently the Mayor of Windsor is recorded as having stated that he would like to have…

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Army Would Help With Boats in Flood

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 March 1965 · page 20

An assurance that the Army would provide assault boats in the event of a flood has…

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Further Flood Works Programme

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1965 · page 28

Current flood mitigation works being undertaken by Windsor Council, including the cleaning of…

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Flood-free Land Too Long to Wait for Plan

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 April 1965 · page 27

Windsor Council considers that the need for flood-free building blocks in the Windsor town…

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Shire Flood Mitigation Project For Three Areas

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 May 1965 · page 19

A flood mitigation programme costing £11,795 ids to be Implemented at Freeman’s Reach,…

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Flood Mitigation Works Maintenance Costs Causing Concern

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 May 1965 · page 4

The cost of maintaining some eight miles of flood mitigation channels is causing deep concern to the Windsor Council…

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Reminder on Flood survey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 June 1965 · page 16

Although the district is experiencing one of the driest periods on record, the Windsor…

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Flood Mitigation Work Landowners fear Erosion

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 June 1965 · page 14

A claim that flood mitigation work being carried out on Freeman’s Reach…

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Flood Boat Trailer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 June 1965 · page 7

A second flood-boat trailer Costing £92 is to be bought jointly by Colo Shire and Windsor…

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Trial Soon For Flood Boat

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 June 1965 · page 17

Civil Defence Headquarters has approved of plans and specifications for a 14 ft…

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Soil Removal Could Affect Flood Mitigation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 July 1965 · page 23

Large scale removal of soil near Addy’s Greek, Sackville, could menace the success of flood…

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Premier’s Assurance on Flood Survey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1965 · page 24

The committee appointed to make a flood mitigation survey of the Hawkesbury River is getting on with the job, the Premier (Mr R. W. Askin)…

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Viewpoints of Readers Scheme to Ease Floods, Droughts (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 August 1965 · page 2

Sir,—A document in petition form is being circulated in Colo Shire seeking to have the flood…

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Course Flooded By Drainage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1965 · page 22

During recent heavy rains, a great volume of water was discharged from drainage pipes on…

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Tender For Flood Works

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 August 1965 · page 14

Windsor Council has accepted the lowest of four tenders received for the construction of flood…

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Heavy Rain, Hail In Storm

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 September 1965 · page 1

Falls of up to an inch or rain were recorded in a heavy storm, which struck the district about…

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Flood Deputation Makes Headway

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1965 · page 19

In a recent successful deputation to the Minister for Public Works (Mr David Hughes), members of the Hawkesbury Flood Mitigation…

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New Formula Needed for Flood Works

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 October 1965 · page 14

Confronted with increasing expenditure on flood mitigation works, Windsor Council will ask the State Government to revise its formula of…

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Proposed Road Would Give Access in Floods

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 November 1965 · page 7

A new expressway planned by the Department of Main Reads, to cross the Hawkesbury River at Castlereagh, would give flood-free access to…

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