The Balonne River in St George has been classed as a Major Flood
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Sir Kev & Darkie
For those who attended the
St George National EO Gathering will recall that
St George was quickly running out of
water.
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With all the rain lately there has been a large amount of
water flowing and the flood peaked yesterday at around 7m downstream of the Jack Taylor weir. Below is the latest photos taken in the last couple of days
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Hopefully some will make it past the QLD Border ;)
Cheers Kev
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Reply By: Member - Mark G Gulmarrad - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:48
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:48
Kev
good to see all that
water out there. did your dad take these and did he get out to the top of the storage dams where you took us to see where they were growing the wheat that day?
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:52
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:52
My sister or BIL took them. The ones midstream are from the SES Flood boat as they were doing some training in them while the opportunity was there.
I'll get them to get some photos of the off stream storage for me to post on here as
well.
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Follow Up By: Hairs & Fysh (NSW) - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:14
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:14
Yeah, Please do Kev.
It would be an awesome sight ATM.
It truly is a country of contrasts.
Thanks for posting these pics. :)
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:36
Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:36
No photos sent through as yet.
They recieved another 13mm of rain yesterday (Sunday) so the road out to the off stream storage is too wet to drive on (thanks to the black soil).
Will post the photos when I get them :)
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Reply By: Dave B ( BHQ NSW) - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:27
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:27
Great photos Kev, and good to see all that
water.
It looks like there might be even some more rain around the place too.
You might get some relief from the dust storms for a while.
It won't take too long for some ground cover to pop up.
Dave
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:49
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:49
Most ground cover is a foot high at the moment LOL
More photos to come in regards to Marks enquiry.
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Reply By: Wilko - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:50
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:50
Hi Sir Kev,
Its great to see, We've had good rains in the last week and more over night. I think the Darling will be solid for the next month or so.
I hope some of it makes it to the
SA border ; )
Cheers Wilko
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Follow Up By: Madfisher - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:11
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 15:11
Hi Wilko,
They are releasing around 10000ml per day from the Minidee lakes, and they are still rising. Have close to 500000ml in storage now.
See you got some good rain as
well. 91mm at the
Parkes airport.
Cheers Pete
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Follow Up By: Wilko - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 22:14
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 22:14
Hi Pete and its still coming down, Keep bringing it Huey we still need it.
Cheers Wilko
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Follow Up By: JR - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:56
Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:56
I thought they werent going to fill Meninde at all as there wasnt enough
water to fill
Menindee AND Cawndilla? Did fill top lakes though didnt it?
Next flow may help though
The stuff they are letting go is to go to SA lower lakes, but wont make that bigger impact though.
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Follow Up By: Madfisher - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 21:42
Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 21:42
Have a look at the waterinfo site then go to daily river reports. Then click on the darling and at the bottom is the reports on the menidee lakes.
Top three lakes are full and looks as though
Copi hollow is rising although they do not give a report on it just the height.
Cheers Pete
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Reply By: Member - Old Girl (QLD) - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:33
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:33
Great Kev,
Only way i can see the awesome change out there at the moment is for people to post photos on here.
Thankyou.
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Reply By: Isuzumu - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 18:59
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 18:59
Might have had a bit of trouble with our yabby net at the moment Kev hehehehe.......great to see that amount of
water flowing and their in for more to.
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 19:29
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 19:29
The Maranoa is still rising at Old Cashmere.
Bungil
Creek has just risen again at
Roma.
The Balonne/
Condamine has just started to fall at
Surat but will rise again when the
water from Bungil
creek hits as
well as the
water from Yuelba and
Miles.
I wish the
water we got in the weir at
Chinchilla last weekend was allowed to remain but DERM has decreed that it has to be released as environmental flows??
They don't realise that a few km downstream of the weir is Charley's
creek that has had 5+m of
water flowing into the
Condamine River since around christmas :)
Cheers Kev
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Follow Up By: Member - steve. B... (NSW) - Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 19:30
Saturday, Feb 13, 2010 at 19:30
Hi Kev. Fantastic photos. What a difference to when we were there. One dust I presume? Thanks for the photo's. We are getting a lot of rain down here but it all gone in about an hour. Just leave a big mess behind. Looking forward to meeting up again at
Wiluna. Cheers Steve.B...
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Reply By: cycadcenter - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:22
Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:22
Do you know if Cubbie Station is lifting any
water? Or perhaps they can't get any $$$ to do it.
Bruce
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:14
Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:14
Cubbie is NOT pumping but with the current height of the
water will be harvesting
water through their floodplain catchment area. From what I have heard they have a skeleton crew on staff and having some
water will create some more interest to potential buyers :)
Cheers Kev
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Reply By: Member - Warrie (NSW) - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:00
Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:00
Hi Kev, here's a link to the Qld govt site concerning river flows. All this
water is great news and is going to give the farmers the best autumn for years... W
Balonne River @ St George
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Follow Up By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:09
Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:09
Warrie,
That site is good but I find that this one
BOM River and rainfall data gives a better indication as the river level changes along the whole system rather than just a few spots as shown in your link.
Yours does show the amount of
water, though it would be interesting to see how they gauge the quantity as there would be alot of variables (i.e
water speed and depth).
Cheers Kev
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Reply By: Sir Kev & Darkie - Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:35
Monday, Feb 15, 2010 at 08:35
Another 46mm of rain has fallen in the last 24 hours at Weribone (just south of
Surat) so a bit more
water to add again :))
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