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  Event Details  
  Event Title   Gympie, Southern Qld & Eastern NSW: Floods   
  Event Category   Flood   
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  Event Start Date   04/25/1989   
  Event End Date   04/30/1989   
 

Duration of Event

   5 day/s   
         
  Location  
  Zone   Queensland   
  Region   Brisbane, Lismore (QLD)   
  Map   81, 82   
         
  Human Casualties  
  People Killed   2   
  People Injured   25   
  People Affected   5,000   
  People Homeless      
  People Evacuated   1,000   
         
  Property Damaged   Damaged Destroyed  
         
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  Total Cost  
$0.00 
    
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  Information Sources  
  Source/s   Printed Press - Major Daily Newspapers   
  Description      
         
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  Details  
  This second round of floods was caused by a rain depression on the coast. Rain and flooding problems continued for the whol month of April in all the coastal regions of NSW and southern Qld (a man swept from his car in a flooded creek at Mudgeeraba died on 26/4), with Lismore and Murwillumbah in NSW and Gympie in Qld reporting their second floods in a month on 26/4. Once again, caravan parks were evacuated, and 2 people drowned after being swept away in flooded creeks.
There was also secondary flooding in the Riverina district of NSW.