Hi Tony et al, Have a look at my aerial photos of the flooding Murray in SA- if you don’t call this a flood than what do you call it?? ‘Flowing quite well’ is a bit of an understatement… Apparently the ‘official’ definition of a flood is when the flow reaches 100,000 ML/day at the SA border – well it got to 94,000 which is higher than we’ve seen in 18 years!! You should come up here and have a look at it, it’s pretty amazing! Here’s the link again in case you’ve missed it: https://picasaweb.google.com/waanders.peter/SARiverMurrayFloodFlyover1March2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJqsqqWZ5K3d4QE&feat=directlink
cheers
Colin,
I did not realise that aboriginal people were into recording the heights of rivers prior to the arrival in 1788 of our mob. Be interested in seeing the records.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Hi all,
We talk about the 74 or 56 floods being significant, but the 80 floods were the worse. I’m talking about the 1780 floods that were recorded at twice the volume of the 56 floods. Now that must have been a very big mother!
Regards from Col.
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Hi all,
We talk about the 74 or 56 floods being significant, but the 80 floods were the worse. I’m talking about the 1780 floods that were recorded at twice the volume of the 56 floods. Now that must have been a very big mother!
Regards from Col.
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My reaction as a tourist would be the opposite to what you say the locals might worry about. I’d go to SEE the floods, not to avoid them, and I’ll go again in a couple of weeks.
Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t disappointed or critical about what I saw, it’s just that the river wasn’t as high as I’d expected. Still an amazing sight after so many dry years and those lagoons and floodplains surely needed the flush.
Tony
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Tony – you mention the highest two extremes in recorded history in SA, of course it’s not high compared to those, but compared to many other unregulated flows it is. How far up did you go? There is significant floodplain inundation from Kingston-o-M upwards, including Katarapko and Chowilla which are seeing floodplain inundation not seen in 18 years. All 6 weirs are overtopped. Locals always play down these things, they’re worried about tourism and people staying away from the region…
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Peter
Tony – you mention the highest two extremes in recorded history in SA, of course it’s not high compared to those, but compared to many other unregulated flows it is. How far up did you go? There is significant floodplain inundation from Kingston-o-M upwards, including Katarapko and Chowilla which are seeing floodplain inundation not seen in 18 years. All 6 weirs are overtopped. Locals always play down these things, they’re worried about tourism and people staying away from the region… cheers Peter
Hi Peter, I didn’t make my comments without first having a look. I came up the river on Sunday and was told by locals that the river had peaked and they didn’t expect it to go any higher. Sure, the previously dry lagoons are mostly now full and they are impressive, but the river itself isn’t all that high, certainly nothing like the ’74 or ’56 flood levels.
Actually it was your last week’s set of lagoon pictures which prompted me to go have a look.
Tony
Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:48 PM Cc: Tony Russell Country)
Hi Tony et al,
Have a look at my aerial photos of the flooding Murray in SA- if you don’t call this a flood than what do you call it?? ‘Flowing quite well’ is a bit of an understatement… Apparently the ‘official’ definition of a flood is when the flow reaches 100,000 ML/day at the SA border – well it got to 94,000 which is higher than we’ve seen in 18 years!! You should come up here and have a look at it, it’s pretty amazing!
Here’s the link again in case you’ve missed it:
https://picasaweb.google.com/waanders.peter/SARiverMurrayFloodFlyover1March2 011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJqsqqWZ5K3d4QE https://picasaweb.google.com/waanders.peter/SARiverMurrayFloodFlyover1March 2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJqsqqWZ5K3d4QE&feat=directlink> &feat=directlink
cheers