Photo gallery - 2008 - Stirling North underpass flooding
On 12 December 2008 the Stirling North underpass was severely flooded after approximately 100 mm of rain fell in the hills around the Pichi Richi Pass, causing the Saltia and Mundallio creeks to flood. Water rushed over the levee banks and the eastern side of the cutting into the underpass, washing away the side of the cutting and undermining the earth under the track, and filling up the cutting with millions of litres of water.
Millions of litres of water have filled up Stirling North underpass. The depth of the water would have cover a loco.
The force of the water into the underpass has washed the embankment away and ballast under the track.
The water level is slowly dropping with pumping in progress. The rubbish on the track shows where the water height was.
The State Emergency Service set up pumps to empty out the water in the underpass which took serveral days to complete. The water level has already dropped after a day of pumping.
Reballasting has started on the approach to the underpass. The track into the underpass is still buried.
Two weeks after the flood, the water is gone and the damage is now visable with the track buried in silt and the walls of the cutting badly eroded.
The track in the underpass is buried in silt. The track had to dug out, ballasted and lifted.
Reballasting has started on the approach to the underpass to lift the track due to washed out ballast from the rubbish dump road into the underpass.
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