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Old Wharf Moulamein 2022

Moulamein, NSW (ABCTV Victorian viewing area)

 

This small town in the NSW Southern Riverina is at the junction of two rivers, the Edward River and Billabong Creek both of which have recently experienced severe flooding, the worst for many years, perhaps on record.

 

Flooding on the vast plains abutting the Murray River in the Riverina and northern Victoria is a slow motion affair often taking weeks to arrive from further upstream, rising slowly and falling slowly. They are no less devastating for that inundating many farms and threading to inundate stream side towns most of which are fairly well protected by levees (but not all of them).

 

The town of Moulamein has fared better than some in that the town itself has not been flooded but all points of access have been cut off to all but local 4WD vehicles. I was lucky enough to be able to get into town last week with my brother who lives on a farm south of the town doing so in his Toyota HiLux.

 

Featured here is the Old Wharf which sits on the bank of the Edward a short distance below the junction of the Billabong and right next to the town centre. There is a very recent supplementary levee bank sitting on the existing one which I believe was built for the last record flood in 1956. Thankfully for the town, the river level didn't reach the supplementary levee but the flood was still a record.

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Uploaded on December 10, 2022
Taken on December 2, 2022