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EBG wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:16 pm

I don't live in Riverlea, I was just visiting, I live in the Eastern suburbs. If I had known it was so far from civilisation I would have brought a packed lunch and filled up in Salisbury or Gepps Cross. You all realise that before the Government decided to call this project Riverlea it was known as The Lower Light Flood Plain.

EBG B. Eng. (Civil).

Riverlea Park (suburb named by the Government - Riverlea is the housing estate named by Walker Corp) would not have been the Lower Light Flood Plain as it's south of the Gawler River. The Light River is north of Two Wells.The water features in Riverlea Park are supposedly designed to channel the flood water from the Gawler River safely away to the Thompson Creek outflow (adjacent to the Bolivar outflow drain) as normal ground level is below Gawler River flood level.It's the same as if the lower Torrens overflows, the excess ends up in the Patawalonga outflow.

It was previously called Buckland Park.
30km from Adelaide CBD.
Aldinga is 45km. Mt Barker is 33km. Gawler 40km. Munno Para 32km. Seaford 32km. Greenwith 23km. Hahndorf 28km.

SBD wrote:

EBG wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:16 pm

I don't live in Riverlea, I was just visiting, I live in the Eastern suburbs. If I had known it was so far from civilisation I would have brought a packed lunch and filled up in Salisbury or Gepps Cross. You all realise that before the Government decided to call this project Riverlea it was known as The Lower Light Flood Plain.

EBG B. Eng. (Civil).

Riverlea Park (suburb named by the Government - Riverlea is the housing estate named by Walker Corp) would not have been the Lower Light Flood Plain as it's south of the Gawler River. The Light River is north of Two Wells.The water features in Riverlea Park are supposedly designed to channel the flood water from the Gawler River safely away to the Thompson Creek outflow (adjacent to the Bolivar outflow drain) as normal ground level is below Gawler River flood level.It's the same as if the lower Torrens overflows, the excess ends up in the Patawalonga outflow.

Can we rename the development Riverleak?

Buckland Park still exists. It's west and south of what's now RIverlea Park.

I've noticed as well quite a few of the homes built, have a noticeable elevation from the footpath, about a foot or 2 or there about's.
Most houses have some drop from the home to the foopath anyway, so not sure if it's just the way they've done the front yards to be able to build those small retaining walls on the front and side boundaries, or if it's perhaps for some small flood mitigation?

rev wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:29 pm

Buckland Park still exists. It's west and south of what's now RIverlea Park.

I've noticed as well quite a few of the homes built, have a noticeable elevation from the footpath, about a foot or 2 or there about's.
Most houses have some drop from the home to the foopath anyway, so not sure if it's just the way they've done the front yards to be able to build those small retaining walls on the front and side boundaries, or if it's perhaps for some small flood mitigation?

I think that is likely deliberate as part of the flood mitigation works. Housing in floodable areas near the Murray River and its Victorian and NSW tributaries and anabranches have minimum floor heights above expected flood levels, often built on top of slight mounds above the street and back yard. I've noticed at least one of the estates near Roseworthy seems to have similar construction requirements where the land east of the Horrocks Highway is higher so runoff will inevitably cross to the lower estate before being channelled to a drain and ultimately the Gawler River.

There has been major infrastructure built for flood mitigation upstream of Gawler, but there is now also significant development happening in Roseworthy, Angle Vale, Evanston, Concordia, etc all of which will eventually drain to the Gawler River, and hard surfaces lead to shorter, higher floods.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&sour ... 7RmkqcJYE0

Link will prompt to download a pdf from the adelaide plains council. Or Google search Adelaide Plains Council flood map

1 in 100 year flood mapping for Gawler and Light rivers.
Looks like most of Riverlea is in the clear?
Of course who knows how the recent and coming development may impact the flow of water in such an event or worse.

rev wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:43 pm

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&sour ... 7RmkqcJYE0

Link will prompt to download a pdf from the adelaide plains council. Or Google search Adelaide Plains Council flood map

1 in 100 year flood mapping for Gawler and Light rivers.
Looks like most of Riverlea is in the clear?
Of course who knows how the recent and coming development may impact the flow of water in such an event or worse.

funny the same government that tells us sea levels are rising due to climate change puts a new housing dev on a flood plain

abc wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:49 pm

rev wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:43 pm

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&sour ... 7RmkqcJYE0

Link will prompt to download a pdf from the adelaide plains council. Or Google search Adelaide Plains Council flood map

1 in 100 year flood mapping for Gawler and Light rivers.
Looks like most of Riverlea is in the clear?
Of course who knows how the recent and coming development may impact the flow of water in such an event or worse.

funny the same government that tells us sea levels are rising due to climate change puts a new housing dev on a flood plain

Maybe that's the reason for the elevated construction, and that the water features are intended to be salt water not fresh water.

In today's tizer - note of a new $60 million private school for Riverlea.

Geez i know that Riverlea is being done by Lang Walker - is this supposed to be a suburb for Millionaires out in the middle of nowhere.

Whilst i do understand the need for more housing and the expansion of Adelaide to areas like Riverlea/Two Wells i do not understand that the people that are likely to want to move that far from Adelaide are rich and can afford to not only pay the ridiculous mortgages of current housing but to also put their kids in private schools???

I would have thought that this area would have needed a good public school.

Its just sad and sign of the times that rather than making things at reasonable prices and affordable for everyone - all they care above is how to extract more money from people pretending to keep up with the Jones's.

ozisnowman wrote: ↑

Thu May 29, 2025 11:54 am

In today's tizer - note of a new $60 million private school for Riverlea.

Geez i know that Riverlea is being done by Lang Walker - is this supposed to be a suburb for Millionaires out in the middle of nowhere.

Whilst i do understand the need for more housing and the expansion of Adelaide to areas like Riverlea/Two Wells i do not understand that the people that are likely to want to move that far from Adelaide are rich and can afford to not only pay the ridiculous mortgages of current housing but to also put their kids in private schools???

I would have thought that this area would have needed a good public school.

Its just sad and sign of the times that rather than making things at reasonable prices and affordable for everyone - all they care above is how to extract more money from people pretending to keep up with the Jones's.

I think the new announcement today is the opening date, and that it will be a campus of Xavier College (original campus is in Gawler Belt, and now also has campuses at Evanston Park and Two Wells). The Catholic School was announced last July.

I don't think that you have to be a millionaire to send kids to a Catholic school, but if you live in Riverlea and want public school education, Virginia Primary School is less than six kilometres away.

SBD wrote: ↑

Fri May 30, 2025 12:52 am

ozisnowman wrote: ↑

Thu May 29, 2025 11:54 am

In today's tizer - note of a new $60 million private school for Riverlea.

Geez i know that Riverlea is being done by Lang Walker - is this supposed to be a suburb for Millionaires out in the middle of nowhere.

Whilst i do understand the need for more housing and the expansion of Adelaide to areas like Riverlea/Two Wells i do not understand that the people that are likely to want to move that far from Adelaide are rich and can afford to not only pay the ridiculous mortgages of current housing but to also put their kids in private schools???

I would have thought that this area would have needed a good public school.

Its just sad and sign of the times that rather than making things at reasonable prices and affordable for everyone - all they care above is how to extract more money from people pretending to keep up with the Jones's.

I think the new announcement today is the opening date, and that it will be a campus of Xavier College (original campus is in Gawler Belt, and now also has campuses at Evanston Park and Two Wells). The Catholic School was announced last July.

I don't think that you have to be a millionaire to send kids to a Catholic school, but if you live in Riverlea and want public school education, Virginia Primary School is less than six kilometres away.

Hmmm - with cost of housing the way it is - mortgages, utilities, food etc - even before considering private education expenses - what wages are you on? The cost of housing these does is out of reach of most young families. Even if they get good trades/education they are likely to be paying of HECS, mortgages, bills, food and anyone moving to Riverlea is not likely to be a combined income family earning $250K plus.

ozisnowman wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:06 am

SBD wrote: ↑

Fri May 30, 2025 12:52 am

ozisnowman wrote: ↑

Thu May 29, 2025 11:54 am

In today's tizer - note of a new $60 million private school for Riverlea.

Geez i know that Riverlea is being done by Lang Walker - is this supposed to be a suburb for Millionaires out in the middle of nowhere.

Whilst i do understand the need for more housing and the expansion of Adelaide to areas like Riverlea/Two Wells i do not understand that the people that are likely to want to move that far from Adelaide are rich and can afford to not only pay the ridiculous mortgages of current housing but to also put their kids in private schools???

I would have thought that this area would have needed a good public school.

Its just sad and sign of the times that rather than making things at reasonable prices and affordable for everyone - all they care above is how to extract more money from people pretending to keep up with the Jones's.

I think the new announcement today is the opening date, and that it will be a campus of Xavier College (original campus is in Gawler Belt, and now also has campuses at Evanston Park and Two Wells). The Catholic School was announced last July.

I don't think that you have to be a millionaire to send kids to a Catholic school, but if you live in Riverlea and want public school education, Virginia Primary School is less than six kilometres away.

Hmmm - with cost of housing the way it is - mortgages, utilities, food etc - even before considering private education expenses - what wages are you on? The cost of housing these does is out of reach of most young families. Even if they get good trades/education they are likely to be paying of HECS, mortgages, bills, food and anyone moving to Riverlea is not likely to be a combined income family earning $250K plus.

I don't intend to move to Rverlea, but I don't believe that people who do will find that sending their kids to Xavier College will be prohibitively expensive compared to state schools if that is their preference. Andrews Farm is now a well-established suburb but the only school continues to be St Columba College. There are state schools in nearby suburbs, as there is at Virginia near Riverlea. I concede I wouldn't be letting primary school kids ride their bikes from Riverlea to school in Virginia though.