Flood Warning System for Aberdeen

Filed in Recent News by November 23, 2016

COUNCIL predicts the floodplain of Aberdeen could be inundated by up to three metres of water flooding forcing 250 residents to vacate their homes and damaging infrastructure such as roads, bridges and the towns water supply, if the tow levee is breached.

Wayne Bedggood, Mayor of the Upper Hunter Shire Council said they have been studying the history and potential impacts of flooding in Aberdeen for more than a decade and are pleased to have received funding for a new flood warning system for the town.

“The Aberdeen Flood Warning System will provide the Bureau of Meteorology with more timely river and rainfall information to predict flood levels and issue flood warnings for Aberdeen.

“It will enable the SES to implement local emergency response measures including local flood advice and evacuations. “

“The project will expand and modernise the existing rivers and rainfall gauging network.

Information from the gauges will be automatically sent to the Bureau and the SES, enabling extension of the Bureau’s riverine flood warning service to Aberdeen.

“The latest rainfall and river level readings will be available on the Bureau’s web site (www.bom.gov.au). “

According to Council’s research the earliest significant flooding recorded in Aberdeen was in June 1820, with the largest in February 1955.

Since 1955 there have been significant floods in February 1971 and January 1976.

In 1976 a levee was constructed to provide protection for the residential area east of the New England Highway, however a flood the magnitude of 1955 would overtop the levee.

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