Newbridge Football Ground devastated by flood

By Emma Sartori
Updated November 7 2012 - 4:20am, first published January 15 2011 - 3:00am
The Newbridge Football Ground has been extensively damaged by floodwaters. Picture: NADINE HOLLAND
The Newbridge Football Ground has been extensively damaged by floodwaters. Picture: NADINE HOLLAND

The tiny town of Newbridge has been dealt a further blow with floodwaters causing extensive damage to the Newbridge Football Ground.Newbridge Football Club president Ron Trimble said the effects of floodwaters would devastate the club and that the oval and clubrooms were still under water."The canteen, service and bar areas are completely demolished," he said."The footy sheds are still under at least two feet of water so we're still not sure about the damage there."We can only assess what we see. I've been around it in a boat but until the floodwaters recede we can't assess anything."Mr Trimble said the football oval's goal posts had been pulled from the ground and the scoreboard and netball courts were also ruined. He said the damage the ground had received could put the club in doubt for playing in the Loddon Valley Football League next season."The trash from the floodwaters has pulled the goal posts from the ground and the netball courts are also gone."If we potentially can't play football here next season it's going to have a huge impact on the town," he said.Newbridge was evacuated yesterday as the Loddon River burst its banks and inundated the town.Mr Trimble said he had lived in Newbridge his whole life and had never seen anything like this before. The largest floods Newbridge has ever seen before is when Laanecoorie Reservoir Weir collapsed in 1909."This is the highest level the river has ever reached apart from when the weir burst," he said."Nobody had any idea the water would come this high. Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen."This will devastate us because all we've got is a football club."


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