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Pictorial of floods along the Hawkesbury River near Blue Mountains

Mar 21, 2021

Expectations are that the current flooding along the Hawkesbury River could exceed that of the great flood of 1961.

Here is a photographic history of the major floods that have plagued the Hawkesbury area since the 1800s, profiling the major floods since the Warragamba Dam was completed in 1960, together with a tutorial on why flooding in the Hawkesbury-Nepean area is so dangerous – both courtesy of the NSW SES.

It will flood again:

Why Hawkesbury-Nepean Floods are so Dangerous: