Barwon+river+Flood

===**The Barwon River flood of 1952 was the worst flood ever seen in the Geelong region. Reaching a record height of 5.47m. The closest to that height was the flood in 1995 which reached 5.23m. When they tailed the total amount, there was about 4 million pounds of damage. That is the equivilent of $49,954,800 today. There was about 600 people evacuated from their homes, all taken to trenches dug by volunteers. Because of the flood, many farmers lost a lot of cattle and stock.**===