Kanjini News
8th April 2018
Extreme Rainfall Event - Pump and Roads
Just before Easter we had what was the most intense
rainfall event in recorded history for the Clohesy River / Davies Creek
and Emerald Creek catchments.
Dozens of farms lost their irrigation pumps, many houses got badly
flooded (including Svargo's) and even the very high Davies creek bridge
went under and needed significant repairs.
At Kanjini we lost the electric pump supplying the houses,
Our internal roads suffered wash-outs and landslides and piles of trees
and debris blocked the roads along the creek, all of which took a fair
bit of chainsaw and tractor work to remedy and make tracks passable
again.
We do not have too many pics as our focus was on fixing the damage.
We have none of the huge pipe of trees across the tracks along the
creek or the lanslides blocking roads, but here are a couple of the
lost pump shed and some ruts in the roads:
 A firefighter pump where our electric pump used to be in a shed, which was washed away by the force of the water |
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 a deep wash-out in one of the tracks
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 This side-drain
(whoa-boy) worked well and prevented worse damage to the road, but the
heavy down-pourwashed it out.
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