THE amount of water that flowed along Adelong Avenue in Thagoona during the recent flood event was, according to a number of residents “a very scary experience that they will never forget”.
One was Rod Mallory who said he was in shock as he watched the water level rise at such a fast pace.
“While more recent residents would not have known what to expect, older residents like myself, would have been fearing a repeat of the 2008 and 2011 flood,” he said.
“The water was flowing quite deeply along Adelong Avenue from the Thagoona Haigslea Road end, not across Caledonian Park.
“This just proved what all residents in Adelong Avenue, Thagoona Haigslea Road and Carara Avenue already knew which is that the Thagoona Ditch, along Karrabin Rosewood Road was never going to stop the flooding in the aforementioned streets, while also proving to be a waste of money.
“Fortunately, the same storm conditions of 2008 and 2011 did not eventuate and the water level did not rise as high, therefore it did not cause as much damage.
“Although the water came close to entering some houses along Adelong Avenue, judging by the grass, rubbish and debris caught along some fences on Thagoona Haigslea Road.
“After the 2011 floods the council, with their engineers held a public meeting in Rosewood to display the proposed plan for flood mitigation in the Thagoona area.
“I believe, what they demonstrated, would have protected almost every house had the work been undertaken, however money became unavailable.
“The proposed solution was apparently scrapped and a big useless ditch was constructed.
“Now the only hope we have is that the one-in-one-hundred-years flood, that we had twice in three years, is not repeated, at least for another hundred years.”
