Water Damage

Water Damaged Documents and Photographs

The best thing to do is avoid water damage by preventive measures, especially in flood prone areas. Have a disaster plan ready. Have all your documents of significance in a ready state for evacuation.

Too late?
(See below for links to YouTube videos on how to preserve water damaged collections).

How to deal with wet documents.

Try and deal with wet documents quickly! Preferably within 24 hours of being wet. If you cannot deal with them immediately you can put them into freezer bags and freeze them until you get time to deal with them.

Mould

Anything that has been wet in moist warm air for longer than 24 hours will have started to develop Mould (or Mold).

A definition from the Oxford dictionary.

Mould is a "wooly or furry growth of minute fungi on things of animal and vegetable origin that lie for some time in in moist warm air [ME (Middle English), f(rom). obs(cure). mould a., p.p of moul grow mouldy f. ON (Old Norse) *mugla, mygla]

Mould is very damaging to any organic based material (almost everything in an archive). Mould is also extremely dangerous to humans and great care should be taken when dealing with mould.

(More on dealing with mould later - Try a google search for other resources)

"Dealing with water" damage videos on YouTube

There are some very useful video links put together by "Preservation Australia," that were located thanks to the Australian Historical Societies Support Group newsletter after the 2011 Brisbane floods.

Category Name: Caring for collections
Link Name: Salvage of water damaged materials
Link URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/PreservationAust
Link Description: Video prepared by Preservation Australia
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KHS Open Day - On Sunday, March 17th 2013, when it was 50 Years since the Royal Tour visited Kununurra on March 17th 1963.

57days until
July 20th 2013, when it will be 50 years since the Ord River Diversion Dam was officially opened by Prime Minister Robert Menzies

Kununurra Museum Events

For more information on Kununurra Museum Events, for the Australian "Year of the Farmer," see the KHS Events Page

1942

March 20th 1942

Wirraway A20-62

On March 20th 2017 it will be...

75 Years...

Since the forced landing of Wirraway A20-62, on coastal saltmarsh, just inside the WA/NT border, by Pilots Lew Dwyer and Warwick Carmody. See the permanent "Wirraway - Challenge" display at the KHS Museum.

65days since
March 20th, which was the date of the forced landing of 12 Squadron Wirraway A20-62 in 1942. Broome and Derby suffered air raids on this day, March 20th 1942.

1942

1943 (Dry Season)

70 Years ago at Carlton Reach

(Ord River Experimental Station)

During the dry season of 1943 Kim and Bill Durack continued their work on the "Ord River Experimental Station," which had been set up late in 1941 at Carlton Reach using the waters of the Ord. More information is available about the 36 HP Petters "Atomic" diesel pump engine, used to raise the water for these first major experimental attempts at irrigation, at the twenty acre farm site. available from the Carlton Reach Pump Engine

ABC Kimberley Radio Interview (March 2013) - About the "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine - See http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2013/03/18/3718139.htm?site=kimberley

News Flash!
In April 2013 the 36 HP "Petters Atomic Diesel Engine" was donated to the Kununurra Historical Society by the Department of Agriculture and Food WA - Frank Wise Institute of Tropical Agriculture (formerly the Kimberley Research Station, where the engine was also in use until the 1950s), KHS plans to display the original pump engine by the entrance gate of the Kununurra Museum.

Events from 2011

Wyndham and Hall's Creek (aka "Kimberley") were established.

1886

125 Years Ago
(In 2011)

In May and June 2011 It was
90 Years
Since the WA and SA Government Astronomers came to the Kimberley in
1921
to determine the position of the WA/NT Border on the ground by using the new technology (in 1921), of radio time signals. This exepedition in 1921 would locate the border position and a WA Survey crew would come back in 1927 to build the Kimberley Obelisk, which still determines the border today.
Read More about the 1921 WA/NT Border Determinations

1941

1941
Carlton Reach

"Thethebeleng" or "Carlton Reach"
:-( now sadly, referred to as Lake Kununurra)
Was the largest permanent waterhole in the entire Kimberley Region, held back by a place called "Tharram," the "Rocky Falls" or "Jasper Bar" or "Bandicoot Bar," stretching all the way to "Carlton Ridge" or the head of the "Sleeping Buddha, as it is known today."

"Kim's Place"  or "Ord River Experimental Station" or "Ord River Experimental Farm" or "The Cabbage Patch" - No matter what it has been referred to in writing, this was the WA Government's precursor to the joint Federal (CSIRO) - State (WA Ag. Dept.) Kimberley Research Station (KRS).

The 1941 experimental station was set up at Carlton Reach, by Kimberley Michael Durack, for the Department of Agriculture WA, with assistance from the Public Works Department, along with his brother William A. (Bill) Durack, and other helpers along the way.

It will be 75 Years Ago
(in 2016)

Read More on the Carlton Reach Pump Engine Research Page

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This site was started on January 31st 2011

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