More SEQ Dams overflowing

[Mike Delisser]

Most of SEQ's dams are now well and truly spilling. Apart from Awoonga and Mondy (still suffering), most had only just recovered from the 2010/2011 floods and were starting to fish well again. No doubt many fish would have gone over. Will be a lot of hard work ahead for some stocking groups and cleaning up for residents downstream.

Highest levels as of 2pm Sunday
Awoonga 8.2mts over spillway - falling
Mondy was 3mts over spillway but auto sender has now failed
Paradise 7mts over spillway - rising
Cania 3.4mts over spillway - falling
Wuruma 3.7mts over spillway - rising
Lenthalls 4.4mts over spillway - steady
Boondooma 3.0mts over spillway - rising
Bjelke 0.8mts over spillway - rising
Borumba 6.1 mts over spillway - rising
Lake Maca 1.31mts over spillway - rising
Somerset 1.0mts over 100% - rising
Wivenhoe 1.0mtr below spillway - steady releasing 1000+ cubic mts per sec

[Si]

8.2 metres over spill way for awoonga. thats an insane of amount of water. we were in severe rainfall deficiencies last week, crazy to think.

[BLOOEY]

Holy crap!! Borumba at 6.1m over. Hows imbil fairing ? if it is still there!! Ben

[Schulzy]

Boondooma is well over and probably bp as well

[Schulzy]

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Boondooma boat ramp

[trymyluck]

Why worry, they are only an inpoundment while the the dams are not overflowing, they revert to being a river or creek when over flowing, get over it......

[truth stretcher]

am i correct in saying most of the bass this time of year are heading for the upper reaches?
will this stop a lot going over the wall in some of these impoundments?

[Mike Delisser]

Why worry, they are only an inpoundment while the the dams are not overflowing, they revert to being a river or creek when over flowing, get over it......
Well from the local volunteer stocking group's point of view, there's years of bloody hard work and millions of dollars worth of fish going over the walls. Plus for the next couple of years until the fisheries are restocked, a lot of small regional communities will miss out on badly needed money spent in by visiting anglers.
And probably one of the biggest worries is the water flowing over the spillways at Cania (3.4mts), Wuruma (3.73mts), Boondooma (5.01mts) Bjelke (1.3mts) & Paradise (7.45mts) will all be flowing down the Burnett and through Bundaberg in a day or two.



am i correct in saying most of the bass this time of year are heading for the upper reaches?
will this stop a lot going over the wall in some of these impoundments?

Not really mate, yes the bass arn't schooled close to the wall like they can sometimes be in late winter and spring, but they arn't in the upper reaches either. Just before this flood I know there were big schools bass and yellas in the main basin of Bjelke, and in Boondooma they were starting to move from the Boyne & Stuart arms into the main basin.
Also to give you some idea of how much water flows through the dams during these flood events, Somerset had 3 times it's total volume flow through it in just 3 days during the 2011 floods.

[Horse]

Unfortunately its a fact of life in QLD that these dams will exceed capacity on a regular basis. If its only the SIP money being invested then there is little harm. I think it would be advantageous to look at closing the downstream rivers below these dams to commercial netters to give these farmed fish a crack at living in the wilds

[Feral]

Well from the local volunteer stocking group's point of view, there's years of bloody hard work and millions of dollars worth of fish going over the walls. Plus for the next couple of years until the fisheries are restocked, a lot of small regional communities will miss out on badly needed money spent in by visiting anglers.



And what is worse, With the current Govt's attitude, there are no funds available to restock these fish, remember only just over 30 waterway get access to SIP funds, more than twice that number exist on chook raffles now. All other funding from the State Govt was stopped. These dams wont be ok in a couple of years, these communities wont have their tourism revenue source renewed.

[finga]

Where's Tim Flannery when you need him to offer an expert opinion of why all this rain is about?

[BLOOEY]

Caught a heap of bass in NPD today to over 50cm and in excellent condition so they diddn't all go over the falls. If that makes you feel any better Mike. Ben

[finga]

The poor old Lesley out here did not get much of a fresh put in it at all. Still miles below the spillway.
With this flood I noticed something very unusual. There was very little run off of the water in and around Warwick. Near everything coming down from the heavens soaked straight into the cracks in the ground. The flood waters actually came from way up stream of the Condamine and it's tributaries.