15th August, The Loddon Flows!! (now to save it from being turned off again)

The Loddon River at Loddon weir, Fernihurst, began to flow again today when the upper Loddon River went into  low flood with flows of 4.55mgl over the Lanncoorie weir measured on Friday 13th August 2010.

With low concrete weirs  in place at Bridgewater and Serpentine, there was no buffer in the system to take up, and those flood waters arrived at the Loddon weir last night at about midnight.
Today there was a stream of locals bringing down their kids to witness an event many of them has not seen before, water flowing through the weir and into the lower river,,lets hope they will see it again, and often..

Down stream of the Loddon weir there was significant flow at the Fernihurst Serpentine road bridge ( as you would expect considering what was happening just a few km upstream,

 the Boort bridge was a different story with clean water flowing through and not the red raging turbid water found at Fernihrst

but water had not yet reached the Gilmour's road bridge near the Macoorna channel and so no update photo was taken as it was the same as last week.

The challenge now is to keep the water flowing and nurse the river back to health.
It would of been amazing to think that this was an event orchestrated by the management, time will tell if they get the idea.

On a management issue, Environment Victoria conducted a healthy rivers seminar this weekend which i attended and will post information here to keep you informed.

Stay tuned for developments.

cheers

Ray...

its a day to smile.