Murray Darling Junction pics

Wow, we had lunch there early January.
It will be interesting how high it gets. How high is it at the lock.
Sharon

I'm guessing this is still the Christmas water getting down there?
Despite what the news may tell you, most of Toowoomba's water is actually west bound in the Murray Darling catchment and not heading to Brisbane as reported. Its due to peak at Bourke over the next fortnight and its already nearly as high as our "christmas water" peak. Should be interesting further south in a few weeks time.
Tim

Hi Dave

Very interesting pictures. I have been following the River flows very regular. You may have read my blog from early January when we headed to the River to follow up on the rising water levels. Since the 2nd January, the river flows through Lock 1 actually dropped very slightly and were just under the 50,000 megalitres per day and have been constant since then until last week. As you can see from the screen dump, it has increased by more that 10,000 megalitres per day in the last week and rising fast now. The peak flow is estimated to be around the 80,000 megalitres per day and at its current increased flow rate, we could see the first peak in around 2 weeks time, give or take. The next expected flow peak is expected late March, early April.

When the levels get near their peak down here in SA, we will duck over for more pictures and updates.



Cheers and Regards to Nora.



Stephen and Fiona.

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Hi dave amazing the changes hey.

looks like the kids will have fun on the playground at the moment hey!

cheers

Hi Dave and all,
It has been an exceptional week.Last Friday's storm dropped 224 mm of rain on the Red cliffs area-a year's rainfall in 24 hrs.heaps of flash flooding over 259 homes affected but because low lying areas affected are in the swales of sandhills unfortunately no drainage Huge pumps are having little affect nearly a week later with heaps of homes sitting in a nasty cocktail of contaminated water.Local roads still slosed and will stay that way for some timeThe areas of Irymple,Red Cliff and Cardross are thre worst impacted but Mildura cbd has better drainage and the problem quickly dispersed there
Cardross 400 m away still has 3ft of water lying like a great lake in the middle of which is our much loved footy/cricket/netball facility.Will have to evaporate dry I think meanwhile starting to stink and breed mossies
Think the media is flood weary as we have hardly had a mention in Melb papers.
Hoping the expected rain tomorrow will not cause more troubles.
Cheers,
mary

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Hi Dave,

Similar angle but in December 2008.

John