Flooding (Dubbo to Canberra) Newell Highway

JohnR · Senior Member

Flooding (Dubbo to Canberra) Newell Highway

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Sure is a lot of water around all areas you mentioned, John.

Are the big craters still on the Yass-Boorowa Road near the Hume Hwy end? Massive!.

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Aust is almost a big caucer . We've had some rain !!

jules47 · The Happy Helper

WOW!! - Just got this - was posted on the 7 news at 6.05pm tonight (Sunday 25/9/16)

"Floodwaters predicted at two rural NSW towns will peak later and more gently than previously thought, but evacuation orders remain in place.While floods were expected to peak at Forbes and Condobolin during the day on Sunday, the Bureau of Meteorology is now predicting the peak around midnight or early Monday morning.Lachlan River, near Forbes, is expected to reach almost 10.7m after the area received an extra 17mm overnight but will peak gently, BOM senior hydrologist Hugh Bruist told AAP on Sunday.The SES said despite the prediction, people living in and around Forbes are still being encouraged to evacuate.'The situation at Forbes is continuing; the river is still rising, albeit slowly,' SES spokeswoman Sue Pritchard told AAP.About 1000 people in Forbes were ordered to evacuate on Saturday while residents at Condobolin remain on stand-by pending possible further flooding.The SES has received 2300 calls for assistance since August 30, including 95 flood rescues.While flooding in Forbes has surpassed the 1990 floods, in which the Lachlan River reached 10.65m, the worst is now being predicted to hit next week.Forbes Shire Council spokesman John Zannes says residents in low lying areas in the town are at risk of being inundated with water or being isolated.'The water's coming up at Lake Forbes, which cuts the town in two or three,' he told AAP on Saturday.'There's already a lot of cropping land which has been covered.'NSW Deputy Premier Troy Grant said the flooding will have a long-term impact on farming communities.'What's coming is worrying the population more than what will happen tomorrow morning,' he told Sky News on Saturday.He said there had been significant stock and crop losses already, and the full impact of the flooding wouldn't be known until the waters subsided but many farming families would be without their normal income.'Around here, most of the harvesting is done in November and a lot of those crops have been washed away,' Mr Grant said.Farmers in flood-affected regions are nervously waiting to see how much damage has been done to crops once the waters recede, a NSW Farmers spokesman said.To date more than 2000 sheep and more than 1000 head of cattle have been moved to higher ground.The bureau predicts a second, higher peak next week near Condoblin and Euabalong.Photo via Facebook Parkes Aero ClubAAP - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2016/09/25/nervous-wait-for-nsw-towns-in-flood-danger.html#sthash.q7ew5Wm9.dpuf'

-- Edited by jules47 on Sunday 25th of September 2016 06:20:36 PM

brickies · Guru

Time like this show how important internet is when on the road so has to keep out or get out of area when this start to happen .

JohnR · Senior Member

Doughe

Not sure about the "craters" you are referring to at the Hume end of the Boorowa Road. There is a lot of road works happening in that area at the moment as well as the wet weather causing significant damage. A slight correction to my earlier post. I referred to the town of Cargo instead of Cudal in the detour details to Canberra. Both towns are in the same area.

JohnR

macka17 · Guru

As long as they lay bitumin on loose bases then keep relaying/surfacing on top.
It's going to lift and strip with every rain and water movement.

They have NO idea how to lay roads in this country, unfortunately.
Just Patch. Patch Patch.
Next ones can fix it.

Concrete roads in a proper formation is the only way to lay a formation that will last
in all weathers.

The roads I drove on in Mid '50's in Germany/Holland
are still there today. Just have ashphalt strip over them for silence.
Hitler and his mates laid them Before the second world war
in the '20's.

may cost a bit more initially. But you only have to do it once.
(If done right)
Brissie at least is starting to see the light. They laying concrete.
just have a proper formation there first.
All tied together. It just lifts and falls in one layer, Shoulders hold it together.

I feel sorry for the people in these flooding areas.
But it's ALL, the councils and planning, plus Dams and wiers holding water back and restraining run off.
Fault.

Nature did it right.
we stuffed/ing it up.and the women and children are suffering.

Apart from farmers who have to make do with land formation as is.
The councils should NEVER allow building homes or otherwise in man made, or otherwise. Flood plains.

THEY are the problem.

I've never built a home below 100ft above sea level. Apart from my Yachts.
Which floated on it at whatever level.

Sorry I'm off subject a bit. It just frustrates a person
when you know it shouldn't be happening.

If people with ANY thing between their ears,
Had done things right the first time. Yrs ago.
This WOULDN'T be happening..

All they had to do was look Overseas.

We were using a "stripper/relayer" in UK 45 yrs ago.

It set up on an old bitumin road. Stripped. Sorted. Side conveyored the rubbish into trucks
keeping the metal..
while being fed with fresh material over the side too with another "up"conveyor.
. Whackers.compactors under centre compacting cleaned formation.
then relaying fresh bitumin mix, to depth required out the back.

A German machine.
I've been waiting to see one here for 40 +yrs.
Still waiting..

If people built levvee banks like they do in Europe/UK for 100;s of yrs.
round homes and towns
Built houses UP.... Like we have in Queensland for over 100 yrs.

The water just goes round. or straight through.
Just have to move car, washing machine to high ground and watch it flowing.
NO Damage. NO Danger. NO lost dogs and KIDS.

This country soooo frustrates me sometimes.
When technology. and experience are around for decades and more.
and nobody uses them.

Just the same old. same old
EVERY YR.

Nobody seems to learn anything.
Even just burning off when shorter like we used to
B4 Bloody nosy Do Gooders stuck their noses in.

Grr. Back in hole.

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

A hell of a lot of water around! More to come too. We were flooded in the week before last! I just came back from a weekend in Berrigan. The river @ Thompsons beach is half way up the walls of the restaurant there. I visited a favourite camping spot of mine I'm sure some of you will know. Noramally you would have to follow the track in a couple of klms to reach the river. Right now the river will meet uou at the gate. No camping on the mighty Murray for a little while yet. Once the water has subsided you won't want to be there for mossie's...they are out of control, along with the roo's. Please take care driving along these roads as the roos have been forced off the river to a fairly narrow strip of land. They are extremely toey so will jump out onto the road any time of day.

PeterD · Guru

Live Traffic NSW

Watch that site. It is live and up to date. It will tell you where the main roads are cut.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

HunnyBunny wrote:
A hell of a lot of water around! More to come too. We were flooded in the week before last! I just came back from a weekend in Berrigan. The river @ Thompsons beach is half way up the walls of the restaurant there. I visited a favourite camping spot of mine I'm sure some of you will know. Noramally you would have to follow the track in a couple of klms to reach the river. Right now the river will meet uou at the gate. No camping on the mighty Murray for a little while yet. Once the water has subsided you won't want to be there for mossie's...they are out of control, along with the roo's. Please take care driving along these roads as the roos have been forced off the river to a fairly narrow strip of land. They are extremely toey so will jump out onto the road any time of day.

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This is a little bit less water HB. I reckon just around the bend from your 2 pics. Just behind me is a lovely sandy beach.Â It's been many moons since I saw that area like in your pics too.

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HunnyBunny · Senior Member

It's been 3o years since I last saw the river as it is today!

NeilandRaine · Guru

We spent a week in Condobolin a few weeks back and the daily ritual was to go over to the river and see how much it rose over night.
We left on a Thursday and looked at the caravan parks facebook page and the water was up to the site we just left. Can not imagine how it will be next week

HunnyBunny · Senior Member

With this on the way, I hate to think what it will be like.
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