Floods

1887 Flood    1906 Flood

1909 North Side Flooding Concerns 

1917

 Children at old railway bridge over Lagoon Creek

1933

 D. McInnes image

1936

‘In March 1936 the town and district experienced the worst flooding it had seen. Pipes under the new bitumen in Oak and Beech Streets could not carry off the downpour and east of the intersection became a lake through which A. A. Dyer was able to row a boat. By evening as run-off reached it, Lagoon Creek stretched 100 yards across. Railway lines were damaged everywhere. Trains directed from the coastal route, where the Burdekin bridge was submerged, were blocked by washouts near Ilfracombe. The north ad south bound mail trains met there and passengers transferred by walking across the damaged section’ (Hoch, I. 2008, p.93).

 1950 flood

1958

 C. Coleman image

1973-4

1990

 Looking east from Shakespeare Hotel corner

Barcaldine-Blackall road looking towards Alice River

2006

 ‘The Weir’ in flood 2006

2010

Alice River Bridge