The Lower Loddon

The Lower Loddon
Sunday 15th August...Its flowing!!

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Area of Concern

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In time, additional information will be added to this site to inform those of you who are interested in restoring some flow to the Lower Loddon River in North Central Victoria.

The Lower Loddon is defined by this site as the section of river between the Fernihurst weir and Kerang in Northern Victoria..

Decisions to cut off this section of river from flow and divert all water down the irrigation channels have been made by the water authority, and seem to be in conflict with the Native fish strategy as issued by the MDB.

A quick photographic survey of the river was undertaken in july 2010 just to start this conversation.

What is not clear is why no water flows down the Loddon river , and asks a question of the authorities that allowed it to happen.

What precedence does the abandonment of the Lower loddon set for the rest of the rivers that once thrived and contained different species of animals and fish.



Wednesday, July 28, 2010

NFA (Victoria) endorses campaign



Last night at a committee meeting of NFA ( Victoria) full endorsement was given to this campaign to return some water flow to the Lower Loddon river . 

Some might see this as a conservation push by NFA but in reality its pretty hard to have a native fishery without at least some water flow in the system.

It was suggested to the author that a response from GM water might be in order to explain the situation. Through Mr. G. Creed , Secretary of NFA, the question will be put to GM water . Once a response from GM water is forthcoming, it will be posted here.
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