Following a request from the Engineering and Water Supply Department an inspection of the Bordertown District has been made during the period 19 June 1956 - 27 June 1956, in order to access the possibilities of underground drainage methods for disposal of floodwaters. Bordertown and low lying areas to the west are subject to periodical flooding from the Tatiara Creek and various measures have been adopted to minimise the effects of such flooding. In the vicinity of Cannawigara and areas to the west the flooding is aggravated by the waters of the Nalang Creek, moving north westerly through Mundulls. In 1910 a line was surveyed to the north of Bordertown as the possible site of a channel to divert the waters of the Tatiara Creek, but the scheme entailed excavation to a probable depth of 30 feet in parts, and was abandoned because of the high cost. A line for a proposed drain was also surveyed from Poocher Swamp westward along the Cannawigara road to Kongal springs some 15 miles west of Bordertown. This scheme was also abandoned and the control of floodwaters was largely left to the individual landholders. At that time much of the country to the west of Bordertown was undeveloped and the control of floodwaters was not the problem which is subsequently became.