Thread: Interesting, Odd or Funny Pics II.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

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This was the occasion when the storm, about 1530 from memory, saw cars floating down Elizabeth St, and water nearly up to the platforms in Flinders St. Would have been in the seventies I think.

Elizabeth St is located on the route of a pre-colonial creek.

I only know this because it was reported in relation to that storm event. I have a fair collection of copies of early maps and sketches of all the buildings in Melby and the 'creek' is obvious in the early ones.

DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Elizabeth St is located on the route of a pre-colonial creek.

DL

Another Brains Trust moment.

SFFB.

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Originally Posted by 4bee

Another Brains Trust moment.

There are heaps of others out in the burbs. Most having a 'big' drain under the road........ the road being aligned according to a 'grid' (and has a name like 'Elgar Rd' etc ).

The road grid ignores the contours of the land in a lot of places, esp. the CBD.

The problem is that a 'big' drain in mother country memory is nowhere near big enough to deal with local downpours which will follow the unchanged fall of the land.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Elizabeth St is located on the route of a pre-colonial creek.

I only know this because it was reported in relation to that storm event. I have a fair collection of copies of early maps and sketches of all the buildings in Melby and the 'creek' is obvious in the early ones.

DL

Brisbane CBD's Creek Street, now I wonder how it got its name.

Originally Posted by 350RRC

There are heaps of others out in the burbs. Most having a 'big' drain under the road........ the road being aligned according to a 'grid' (and has a name like 'Elgar Rd' etc ).

The road grid ignores the contours of the land in a lot of places, esp. the CBD.

The problem is that a 'big' drain in mother country memory is nowhere near big enough to deal with local downpours which will follow the unchanged fall of the land.

cheers, DL

Thanks DL. Adelaide doesn't seem to have had that problem I'm glad to say & if it did yonks ago, was taken care of when the Creeks from the different Valleys from the Mt. Lofty Ranges still followed a natural course albeit through areas where some drains have been enclosed & concreted in many places, & even were built over in places like Norwood an old burb. where one was recently discovered beneath a bloke's Shop floor a couple of years ago, but there are still a heap of visible Creeks flowing through back gardens & generally I think folk would prefer them left like that. Said bloke wondered what the noise was emanating from under his boards, now he knows.

You may be aware Adelaide slopes from the Hills in the East down to the coast in the West so all drainage heads that way regardless.

Many sections have been laid with Flat Natural Stones instead of Concrete, much nicer.


We have First Creek at the Eastern suburbs end then those in between & I think could go to 5th Creek not sure about the North of Adelaide creeks. They could be ID'd differently but wherever there is runoff there'd be a Creek going West. Works well but I do recall one rain episode where the levels of some streets were compromised & local flooding took place.

Then there are Creeks running N-S across the Back hills which feed Reservoirs on the plains.


There is even a "DRY Creek" which runs adjacent to Yatala Labour Prison. Not sure what that carries but at some stage it did carry water but whether it still does in Winter is unknown, but probably.

Sorry, what was the Question?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Thanks DL. Adelaide doesn't seem to have had that problem I'm glad to say

Only because it rarely rains. I do recall however wondering if I was going to float away one night about 8 or so years ago on Port Road up near the Cheltenham Cemetery.

That might've been the same night I thought Semaphore was sinking, John.