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At the home to visit his two bed-bound parents as it started to flood in January, Graham Conn helped co-ordinate the evacuation of its residents.<\/p>\n
\u201cStaff were holding doonas against the front windows to try to hold back the tide. The water was rising up so fast we didn\u2019t know how we were going to get them out,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Conn called a local bus owner to take dozens of residents to safety.<\/p>\n
An ex-plumber by trade, Mr Conn said it was not the first time the home had been threatened with inundation by water and that better drainage may be needed, particularly given the home\u2019s location at the bottom of a valley on a similar level to the nearby Anglesea River.<\/p>\n
\u201c(It) happened last year, I think, the carparks filled up but it didn\u2019t get into the building. It\u2019s something they\u2019ll need to investigate in the future how to deal with this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calvary has previously said mitigation works to prevent the home flooding in the future were being assessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE remaining residents displaced by flooding from Calvary\u2019s Cordelia Grove aged care home in Anglesea have been welcomed back. Heavy storms on January 28 led to blocked drains around the home that caused the carpark to flood and water to enter the recently refurbished building, prompting an emergency evacuation of 49 residents to three Calvary […]<\/p>\n