NSW:NSW northwest on alert for more flooding

AAP General News (Australia)
12-10-2010
NSW:NSW northwest on alert for more flooding

Flash floods from rain and thunderstorms are expected to hit much of northwestern New
South Wales this afternoon.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for the region and State
Emergency Service spokesman PHIL CAMPBELL has singled out Tamworth on the Peel river as
an area on high alert.

He says the concern is that people in Tamworth and other areas in the northwest affected
by the severe weather warning will chance their luck on causeways and get washed off and
drown.

Coonamble on the Castlereagh river is also expected to face further flooding .. with
a peak of 5.2 metres expected tonight.

However .. the SES won't be evacuating the one thousand residents .. who were asked
to leave last weekend when the river reached 5.4 metres.

In the state's central west .. floodwaters are receding with evacuated residents expected
to return home.

Around 20 families were evacuated from Cowra Shire Caravan Park last night night and
early this morning as the Lachlan River was engulfed with record levels of flooding.

The SES says the central western town of Eugowra also looks set to get the all-clear
as the level in Mandagery Creek falls slowly from this morning's peak of 9.6 metres.

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KEYWORD: FLOODS NSW (SYDNEY)

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