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| Almost two weeks of heavy rain has wrought chaos across Sydney, causing trees to be uprooted and a landslide and embankment collapse at a train station. No-one was hurt when a concrete wall collapsed across the westbound lane and onto platform 4 at Harris Park Station near Parramatta on Sunday evening, but commuters on Sydney’s Western Line were advised to expect delays, particularly during the afternoon peak hour. Pieces of concrete, fencing and trees spilled across the platform and onto the tracks, and could take days to clean up, a Railcorp spokesman told News Ltd. June is traditionally Sydney’s wettest month, with 316 millimetres falling this year. While that’s more than double the average of 132 millimetres, it’s less than half the record 643 millimetres experienced in 1950. Earlier on Sunday, a fig tree collapsed in Hyde Park, reportedly narrowly missing two mothers and their children. Large trees in the park will be inspected on Monday to ensure they don’t pose a danger. In Centennial Park over the weekend, a tree fell across the children’s bicycle path, blocking the route. Security ranger Jose Rodriguez told AAP no one was around when the tree toppled, and that it would be cleared out of the way on Monday. The flooding was “pretty bad”, he said, with bridges underwater in parts of the park as ponds and lakes overflowed, washing out parts of walking trails near the Kensington gates. But if the weather improved the water would recede in two to three days, Mr Rodriguez said. |
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Landslides, Fallen trees in Sydney wet
Monday, July 01, 2013 » 11:41am
Almost two weeks of heavy rain has wrought chaos across Sydney, causing trees to be uprooted and a landslide and embankment collapse at a train station.
No one was hurt when the concrete wall collapsed across the westbound lane and onto platform 4 at Harris Park Station near Parramatta on Sunday evening, but commuters on Sydney’s Western Line were advised to expect delays, particularly during the afternoon peak hour.
Pieces of concrete, fencing and trees spilled across the platform and onto the tracks, and could take days to clean up, a Railcorp spokesman told News Ltd.
June is traditionally Sydney’s wettest month, with 316 millimetres falling this year.
While that’s more than double the average of 132 millimetres, it’s less than half the record 643 millimetres experienced in 1950.
Earlier on Sunday, a fig tree collapsed in Hyde Park, reportedly narrowly missing two mothers and their children.
Large trees in the park will be inspected on Monday to ensure they don’t pose a danger.
In Centennial Park over the weekend, a tree fell across the children’s bicycle path, blocking the route.
Security ranger Jose Rodriguez told AAP no one was around when the tree toppled, and that it would be cleared out of the way on Monday.
The flooding was ‘pretty bad’, he said, with bridges underwater in parts of the park as ponds and lakes overflowed, washing out parts of walking trails near the Kensington gates.
But if the weather improved the water would recede in two to three days, Mr Rodriguez said.
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ABC NEWS.net.au
July starts dry for Sydney after heavy rain brings a June drenching
Updated Mon Jul 1, 2013 10:57am AEST
Sydney has recorded its wettest June since 2007 with 316 millimetres falling in city during the last month.
The weather bureau says about 100 millimetres fell in the eastern parts of the city over the weekend, while Penrith recorded about 25 millimetres.
But the downpours have come to an abrupt end today, with sun forecast for the rest of the week.
The wet weather caused a raft of problems including water on roads as well as leaking roofs and fallen trees.
A second tree in Sydney’s Hyde Park will be turned to woodchips today after it was deemed unsafe.
A large fig tree in the park came crashing down on Sunday, narrowly missing two mothers and their children, prompting an urgent inspection this morning.
City of Sydney spokesman Gary Harding says the trees are checked regularly for safety concerns but the soggy weather had made the ground unsteady.
“All the rain that we’ve had we believe that’s probably contributed to the tree falling over,” he said.
“There will always be an element of risk with any tree but that’s the price you pay for having trees in parks and people love them and we need them.”
Meanwhile, passengers on Sydney’s western rail line are being advised to check the timetable and allow extra travel time due to a wall collapse at Harris Park station.
The wall collapsed at the station at about 6:00pm yesterday and debris fell onto the platform and four rail lines.
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