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Scene of the Milperra flood, where the Georges River broke its banks June 1950

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State Library of New South Wales
[BN445]
(The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June 1950, p1)

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Georges River: Flooding the City

The Georges River floodplain has a history of severe inundation with tragic human consequences. With increasing urbanization, governments and councils have recognized the need to respond, introducing planning controls and mitigation strategies such as levees, flood gates and detention basins, subsidies for house raising and buy-back programs all yet to be tested by a huge flood event.

Floods

Rivers and Catchments

Georges River

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River that rises at Appin in the upland swamps of the O'Hares Creek catchment, and flows 80 kilometres north and east to meet Botany Bay at Taren Point, in Sydney's southern suburbs. The total catchment is over 930 square kilometres managed by a large number of local government authorities and is the main tributary of Botany Bay.

Milperra

South-western residential and industrial suburb, south of Bankstown airport, named for an Aboriginal word meaning 'a gathering of people'. It was settled after the First World War by ex-servicemen as an area of poultry and vegetable farms, with residential development beginning after the Second World War.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, it is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia.

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