Channel 7 News (Australia): Flood and Water Quality Monitoring with RiverSurveyor and YSI Sonde

(Courtesy of SEQWater and Channel 7 News)

Wivenhoe Dam (Lake Wivenhoe) is located on the Brisbane River in Esk Shire. Storage capacity for water supply (full supply level) is 1,165,000 megalitres, with a further capacity of 1,450,000 megalitres above full supply level (flood storage), for the temporary storage of flood waters.

Wivenhoe Dam is an earth and rock fill dam, with a centrally located, steel radial gated, concrete spillway. Lake Wivenhoe, which is the body of water formed by the dam, is also the lower storage for a 500-megawatt hydro-electric power station, owned by Tarong Energy Corporation. A mini hydro- electric generating plant was constructed by Stanwell Corporation on the outlet works of the dam during 2002.

Water is released from Wivenhoe Dam into Brisbane River and is extracted at the Mt Crosby Water Treatment Plant operated by Brisbane Water. This treated water is supplied to the greater Brisbane area.

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[alexasmithy]

i enjoyed this vid

[adamgreen222]

The TV choppers should be carrying stuff to throw out or lower by release lines to the stranded people -- satellite PLBs and life jackets, self-inflating life rafts and at least marine distress locator flares so they can help instead of just trying to get scary videos to sell their air time to their advertisers.