Flooding

Submitted: Thursday, Jan 29, 2004 at 22:41
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The Diamantina started to move quickly yesterday. At Durrie Station today it went from 7ft2ins (please note Imperial measurements) this a.m. to 9ft at lunchtime and 10ft6ins at dark. Between Durrie and a place called Stoney Crossing (find the Birdsville-Windorah Road about 60 klms from Birdsville - track going across to Birdsville-Bedourie Road and comes out at Carcoory Bore - well Stoney Crossing is about 1-2 klms in from Bdv-Win Road), anyway just north of here the River is 20 klms wide. The old causeway has a good run on it - moving fast but not yet deep (no fish jumping yet). Be interesting to see what happens as all the waterholes in this downstream end have water in them from Christmas rains. At this stage it looks as if will be up fast and maybe go fast. The reading upriver at Monkira this a.m. was still 4.10 metres - was 5 metres last Thursday at the peak. There's a lot of water coming. Am taking two digital shots in the a.m. - one of the causeway and one of the bridge showing the metre reading markers. Remember that the 20 klms wide River has to squash into the 4 klms wide channel to come past Birdsville - the channel being the section from the town grid (on eastern side) to the bridge on the river (the channel & billabong fill first). Funny to watch and sounds like a "babbling brook'. Outer stations are coming in for their last "Happy Hour" tomorrow night for a while.
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