Floodwaters

[[image:geelong flood.jpg width="241" height="207" caption="Flood in Geelong"]]

 * ===Residence lost their homes due to floodwaters. Geelong experienced several floods through the 1950's, but little had grasped the extents of the 1952 floods. On June 18 1952, the newspapers advised that as floodwaters continued to increase, the nastiest was yet to come. The flood waters of the Barwon extended yesterday and after raised gradually through the day, surpassed the 1951 record.===

The worst fears were realized the next day.
===The levee bank at Barwon Heads showed defenseless to stop the flood water, and the community was quickly swamped by the water. The night after the floodwaters had hit Geelong the floodwaters swept through 1.53 meters high and sandbag and earth levee banks and raced down on the community of Barwon Heads.=== ||  ||