PHOTO: Bogan Shire staff Jeff Leek and Jason Shone installing new drinking fountains along the cleaned footpaths.
After three months of inundation by floodwater Nyngan has kicked off the new year free of mud and debris – and ready for the first “normal” January in five years.
The back-to-back impacts of severe drought, COVID-19 travel restrictions, and ongoing flooding took its toll on the western NSW community which typically spends summer on and around the Bogan River.
The start of 2023 has brought renewed optimism as river finally recedes back within its banks, the flood delayed harvest winds up, and the tourists arrive for the peak water-skiing month…