Wollongong residents on Kembla and Swan streets are flooded almost every year

By Ben Langford
Updated March 18 2017 - 8:33am, first published 8:00am
Had enough: Dragi Karabeleski cleaning up his Kembla St house, which is flooded almost every year. For the first 30 years he lived there, it never flooded.
Had enough: Dragi Karabeleski cleaning up his Kembla St house, which is flooded almost every year. For the first 30 years he lived there, it never flooded.

The kind of flooding that hits the residents and businesses of Wollongong city’s southern edge was meant to be a 20-year, or perhaps a 50-year, event.

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