Originally Posted by
Haji-Baba
What has changed in the last fifty years?
More cultivations.
Less big floods.
Possible different additional chemicals.
Less grass lands to filter the water.
Faster overland water flow.
Carp.
Less water weeds to filter the water. (Chemicals, Carp)
Levee banks to confine streams to a set channel with a faster run.
Clearing creeks of logs etc thus increasing the run..
Altered watertable.
Human intervention.
Dams, Weirs, Levees, Ring Tanks, Channels, Irrigation.
A whole host of things have changed, some good, many bad for the river.
Many creeks feeding the Condamine all ran differently, Wambo was red mud,
Dogwood the same, Charlies Creek was generally clear, Nudley milky, Wilkies Creek milky, Undulla clear.
The river in early years was generally clear after a flood or later in the winter.
The one thing nobody has mentioned is the fact that some of our creeks have not had a run for decades.
I wonder why? It has little to do with the lack of rain.
That river to me as a young lad was sacred, now it is only a sewer.
Have Fun Haji-Baba