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Estuary event details
Estuary | Barham River Estuary |
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Region | Corangamite CMA |
Event type | Weather Event |
Date and time | 11 August 2010 11:25am |
Description | A Southerly storm with large swell on top of a high tide of 1 metre AHD combined with a rain/river flood. The Paradise river gauge was observed at 2 metres giving a river flow consistent with a 1 in 5 year flood event. The Barham Catchment was already saturated, the rain runoff caused many slips in the Catchment and the floodwaters carried a high sediment load. The floodwaters gouged out the river mouth and 200 metres of the berm upstream from the river mouth. |
![River flood 1.84metres AHD and waves coming over berm opposite.](https://www.estuarywatch.org.au/documents/ccma_document_4935.jpg)
![The fishing platform is covered by 10cms of sediment and surrounded.](https://www.estuarywatch.org.au/documents/ccma_document_4936.jpg)
![Waves in and floodwaters out leaving logs stationary at the river mouth.](https://www.estuarywatch.org.au/documents/ccma_document_4934.jpg)
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