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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> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:25:45 +1030
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] River Murray flood (was: Big Wet for the Channel
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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
>
>
>
> From: Peter Waanders
> Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 4:30 PM
> To: Tony Russel
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] River Murray flood (was: Big Wet for the Channel
> Country)
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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...
>
> cheers
>
> Peter
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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 16:22, Tony Russel <> wrote:
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> 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
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>
>
> From: Peter Waanders
> Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:48 PM
> To:
> Cc: Tony Russell
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] River Murray flood (was: Big Wet for the Channel
> 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
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