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: River Murray flood (was: Big Wet for the Channel
Country)
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:
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
From: Peter Waanders
Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2011 12:48 PM
To:
Cc: Tony Russell
Subject: 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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