Flood Marker, Gundagai

This is the top half of the marker showing the record 1853 flood that rose to 41ft, the 1852 flood at 40ft 6in that killed 79 people, and lowest item in the picture is the 2012 flood - only 35ft 9in.

Flood Plains and Community Spirit (22/3/14 Part 2)

March 22nd 2014
While at the Centre, we got chatting to the young lady about the floods and whether any had come up as far as Sheridan Street. She said her Nan told her about a bad one in 1974 that would have had the TIC underwater. She, herself, experienced the floods in 2010 and 2012 (both once in a hundred years floods!), where the buildings on the lower side of the street got badly inundated. She said that t ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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