Remembering our poisonous flood history

By Letters to the Editor
Updated July 2 2021 - 1:24am, first published August 2 2020 - 12:00am

As a resident at the then-government hostel, Gorman House, and working in Barton in the very early 1960s, I remember the Molonglo River flooding enough to cause the closure of the old timber single-lane Commonwealth Avenue bridge and blocking the Lennox Crossing causeway.

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