Flooding
Submitted: Thursday, Jan 29, 2004 at 22:41
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Ruth
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.
Reply By: Member - Ruth D (QLD) - Saturday, Jan 31, 2004 at 17:12
Saturday, Jan 31, 2004 at 17:12
Happy
Trails - not good about the modem. Very not good about the medication - you need to borrow some of Willem's! Looking forward to seeing you in July though.
Now, Andrew and Jen: Hmmmm, usual things - how long is a piece of string? How does wind blow? How would you describe the flavour of water? More seriously - don't think you will have any problem getting here by
Easter.
Innamincka might be out though - Cooper Water is already registering this morning at
Nappa Merrie.
Cocka - no rain whatsoever in SD or on western side and unknown yet about water in Eyre Creek - whether enough water to pass Muncoonie Lakes and travel south. If there is no rain you can get in and out of the SD - just not sure which way to go after that. Once the water travels south in the Diamantina into Goyders Lagoon means the
Inside Track will be out (and for a very long time too) but no reason why you can't travel west to east and then north to
Bedourie. Who knows, you are talking May so should be travelling ok by then. Roads in our part of Queensland opened and closed in conjunction with Shire Council and Police - roads in South Australian by Road guys. SD our side, mixture of Police, Qld
Ranger and SA Parks.
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