KERANG was inundated with water from about 6 pm onwards on Sunday night, with 66.6 mm of rain falling to 9 am yesterday morning – the highest rainfall on an October day on record.
Sunday night’s rainfall exceeded the previous October day record by 18.8 mm. The previous record was 47 mm, which fell on October 27, 1973.
It was also Kerang’s wettest day since December 8 last year, when 75 mm fell on the township.
A total of 98.6 mm of rain fell between Friday and yesterday morning, including 6.4 mm to 9 am Friday morning, 3.6 mm to Saturday morning and 22 mm to Sunday morning.
Kerang Borough engineer, Mr Colin Campbell said many streets were covered with water and there were some backup problems in sewerage lines.
Mr Campbell said borough staff worked from 1 am onwards to ensure that the town’s pumps were working properly and he said by yesterday morning problems had begun to decrease.
“It’s just a catchup process now,” he said.
Mr Campbell said he was not aware of rain associated flood waters entering any homes, however some water had made its way underneath homes.
He said that fire brigade personnel had pumped out the top end of Cleeland place on Sunday night to ease flooding problems.
Mr Campbell said some the roads partly or fully inundated with rain associated flood waters included Westblade, Lyall, Muir Canonsgate and Lilac avenues, William, Mitchell, Croton, Mokana, Boundary and Burke streets, McCann crescent, Park road and the Bendigo service road.
WHERE THE RAIN FELL
| mm | |
| Murrabit | 105 |
| Myall | 109 |
| Kerang | 99 |
| Gonn Crossing | 93 |
| Koondrook | 82 |
| Tragowel | 76 |
| Lake Meran | 53 |
| Mystic Park | 50 |
| Kerang East | 37 |
| Gunbower | 32 |
| Benjeroop | 31 |
| Leitchville | 26 |
| Horfield | 25 |
| Gannawarra | 19 |
