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Flooding frustrates saturated residents – Oct 5, 1993

A CROTON street couple is angry that nothing has been done to alleviate drainage problems in their area, with rain associated flooding inundating their property for the second time in 12 months.

Adrian Jill Moore watched anxiously as the weekend’s deluge created flood waters that completely covered their garage floor and measured 8 to 10 cm deep their front driveway.

“You can’t see a blade of grass,” Mrs Moore said yesterday.

The couple’s brick home fortunately rests on stumps and escaped any flooding, however Mrs Moore dreads to think what effect the rain will have on its foundations.

The Moor’s property fronts a unsealed section of Croton street and cops flooding from both Croton and Mokana streets during heavy rainfall.

The last time the Moores and their neighbors suffered severe flooding, they dug a drain to allow flood water to escape into a nearby railway dam.

Mrs Moore said on that occasion borough staff inspected the area and informed residents that something would be done about drainage in the area.

“What angers me more is that the borough promised they would do something about it and they have done nothing.”

Mrs Moore said neighbors were also angry that nothing had been done.

She said during the last flooding, water made its way into the neighbor’s longe rooms.

“It’s just frustrating,” she said.

Shadforth street residents Allan and Jean Doody experienced both flooding and problems created by blocked sewerage as a result of the weekend’s downpour.

Mrs Doody said a well on the nature strip in front of their property which normally took water away from the area had overflowed onto their front lawn and up to the edge of the house.

A sewerage block somewhere in the system created an overflow into the couples backyard, which had resulted in quite a bit of run off, Mrs Doody said.

Borough of Kerang staff were working to fix the problem yesterday morning.

Mrs Doody said similar problems had arisen during previous major storms.

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