Risk Frontiers Briefing Note Released: Anniversary of the Great Hawkesbury Flood
30th June 2017
FMA Member Risk Frontiers has released its latest Briefing Note, this one concerning the anniversary of the Great Hawkesbury Flood from 150 years ago.
The Briefing Note reflects on the history of flooding in the area, and future flood risks of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment.
This week sees a significant but little-heralded anniversary in New South Wales: 150 years ago, on the 23rd of June, a devastating flood peaked at Windsor on the Hawkesbury River. For height reached and area inundated, that event has not been matched on the river since. Indeed no other flood since European settlement has come within 4 metres of that one at the Windsor gauge. The 1867 flood reached 19.7 metres: by comparison, the 1961 flood (the highest in living memory today) peaked at only 15.1 metres...
To read the full Note, visit riskfrontiers.com/insights/bri
