NSW: Two thousand people still cut off after floods: SES

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2009
NSW: Two thousand people still cut off after floods: SES

Up to two thousand people remain isolated after torrential rain brought widespread
flooding to the New South Wales mid-north coast earlier this week.

About one and a half thousand people remain isolated upstream from Bellingen .. in
the towns of Thora and Darkwood .. and in communities in the Kalang Valley.

Another 300 residents are cut off near the Orara River and 180 at the Macleay River.

The SES expects access to be restored to both areas by this afternoon.

The flood-ravaged Clarence Valley is the latest mid-north coast area to be declared
a natural disaster zone .. joining Coffs Harbour .. Bellingen and Nambucca Heads.

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