Floods of November 2009
On the 19th and 20th of November 2009 the river burst its banks for the first time in many years, causing large-scale flood damage to Bandon town and at other points along the river. It was said that the floods in bandon were caused because so many bodies were being thrown into the river on the one certain day.
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