Councils To Buy New Flood Boats
Four new aluminium flood boats, valued at about $8,000, will be bought as a joint project…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1967
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South Creek Flooding Blocks Roads
Falls of up to nine inches of rain on Sunday night in the Parramatta-Blacktown area caused rapid rises in South Creek and its tributaries on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Water Channel Needed
It was only a matter of time before a storm water channel is needed at North Richmond to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Inaccurate Flood Reports Alarm Residents
Grossly inaccurate and alarming flood reports by television, radio and the daily Press last week inconvenienced hundreds of travellers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Full-scale Flood Exercise
Colo Shire Civil Defence will hold a full-scale siimulated flood execrate on April 15 and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Boat Crew Chosen
Windsor Council has appointed Mr Lionel Smith to take charge of its flood boats for exercises and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Works Tender
The local firm, Central Coast Contracting Co., of Windsor, submitted the lowest tender for the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Flood Mitigation No Commonwealth Help at This Stage
The Commonwealth Government is not prepared at this stage to provide any subsidy for flood mitigation works on the Hawkesbury River…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Flood Inquiry Should Sit At Windsor
The inter-departmental committee inquiry into flood problems in the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley should hold at least a day’s sitting at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Flood Boat at Upper Colo
A flood boat is not Considered necessary at Upper Colo. This was decided at the…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Dairyman Undaunted By Early Floodings
Frequent floodings of his Windsor property in four years failed to dampen the spirit of 30-years-old Dutch dairy-farmer, Hank Ruigrok…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Experts Give Evidence Before Flood Inquiry
Expert witnesses in flood forecasting and hydrologic engineering pit their views to a recent sitting of the interdepartmental committee inquiring into flooding in the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →100th Anniversary of the Hawkesbury’s Biggest Flood
June 22 next will be the 100th anniversary of the 1867 Flood—the day when Hawkesbury River reached a flood level of 62 feet. ln next week’s Gazette there will be a special…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →100 Years Ago White Men Never Saw a Big Deluge in The Hawkesbury
“Women and children may be seen walking about, some of them half naked, cold and hungry. “The town is divided into islands, which…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The Flood of June 1867
Loud bowls the wind, down falls [?] rain, We’re visited by a flood again; And ’64 was not a shade, Unto the havoc this one made;…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flood Inquiry to Sit at Windsor
The inter-departmental committee inquiring into flood problems in the Hawkesbury-Nepean…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Boats Put to the Test
The Windsor Council’s new flood boat forces its way through a dense clump of hyacinth in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Control on Coastal Rivers Snowy Mountains Authority Should Take Over
The resources of the Snowy Mountains Authority should be used in major flood control works on the coastal rivers, the Windsor Council…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →10 Give Evidence Before Flood Inquiry
Ten witnesses gave evidence before the Flood Mitigation Inquiry, which sat for four-and-a-half hours at Windsor on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Mitigation No Extension of Federal Aid
The Prime Minister (Mr H. Holt) has indicated that the Federal Government is not prepared at this stage to extend its financial aid to flood…
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