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The stone commemorates those from the Army, Council, citizens and volunteers who assisted the the raising of the levee bank during the floods of 1990.

The 1990 Great Floods were the worst that most of the affected areas had ever experienced (in the Nyngan region, rainfall was the highest on record). At their peak, flood waters covered over 1 million square kilometres of Queensland and New South Wales, and also affected South-east Victoria in a concurrent but separate extreme event. Well over 2,000 buildings were inundated and large crop losses occurred with an estimated 1 million livestock dead.

In the extensive flooding which afflicted western New South Wales for much of the autumn and winter of 1990, the small towns of Nyngan (population 2500) and Warren (2000) became major focal points of flood response action. Nyngan achieved instant fame late in April when its levee banks proved not to be high enough to hold out the worst flood ever recorded in the Bogan river valley; the town became the first in Australia to be evacuated, virtually in its entirety, by helicopter. Just over three months later Warren made news by virtue of its co-ordinated and ultimately successful effort, backed by defence force assistance, to rebuild and raise its levees against the flood waters of the Macquarie River. 

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