What were the effects of the Gundagai floods?

Answer 1

Long term affects are the camp site is not there and they didnt bother to rebuild and 21 people died

The camp was a temporary construction camp, the married quarters remained after the flood, and the single camp was replaced. I spent the first year of my life in the camp where my father was the teacher at the camp school, and when construction of the Kopuawhara section of the Wairoa - Gisborne railway, including the Kopuawhara viaduct was completed in 1939 the whole camp was removed because its purpose had been fulfilled. The long term effect was a completed railway, but unforntunately 21 people gave their lives.

Answer 2

The Gundagai floods of 1852 caused significant destruction, with the Murrumbidgee River bursting its banks and sweeping away homes, buildings, and bridges. The flooding resulted in the loss of around 89 lives and the complete destruction of the town, leading to widespread devastation and displacement of residents. The event highlighted the vulnerability of settlements to natural disasters and led to improved flood control measures in the region.

Answer 3

In the Gundagai floods, despite the rising river, many people chose to wait out the floods in the lofts of their houses rather than evacuate, as they were familiar with floods. However, in the early hours of 25 June 1852, a torrent swept down the Murrumbidgee valley. Houses collapsed and people were swept away. A punt sent out to rescue people capsized, its occupants thrown into the raging waters. Two Aborigines, Yarri and Jackey Jackey, showed great courage and heroism as they took their canoes out into the torrent to rescue people stranded in trees and the water. Although they rescued 49, another 89 were killed in the Gundagai flood.

After another, higher flood in 1853, the town was relocated to its current site on the hill, Mount Parnassus, above the river. In 1867 an iron truss bridge, the Prince Alfred bridge, was built to span the flood plain. Until the completion of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, the Prince Alfred bridge, at 921 metres, was the longest bridge in New South Wales.