EstuaryWatch Data Portal

Berm Height above sea difficult to measure accurately

Assisted by Pam

Note from Estuary to top of Berm 125m

Tide heights from Williweather

Assisted by Emily Hansen

Level indicator on GOR Bridge very difficult to read

Level Indicator at GOR Bridge very clear and clean

Water scoop for pH and Turbidity samples missing

Assisted by John Slykhuis

Assisted by Emily Hansen

Evidence of recent overtopping 

Evidence of recent overtopping from Ocean

Note that Level scale at GOR bridge is dirty and unreadable at low levels 

Continuous level monitoring indicated 1.07mAHD at the time

For some unknown reason the photos from my Macpro turn upside down when they upload to your website. Gail has always had this problem as well.

Assisted by Jane

Tides from Williweather

Data entry of photos etc is now much easier.  WD

Hello Deirdre.

Need:

New box to house equipment - slightly bigger than last one

2 x pH 1413 EC 12,880

New bigger bag for Rose

Spare batteries for pH metre

Jane Rollinson 0406804615  New Volunteer to go onto WhatsApp and the System. jane_rollinson@hotmail.com

Sorry about upside down photos. think I've worked out what to do next time.

John Slykhuis assisted

Doug and Vicki Tipping are new members

Assisted by Doug Tipping

Evidence of tidal inflow overnight

Trundle wheel sticking, Berm length by  GPS Strava

Will have to move AP3 site due to tree growth

Many helpers

Doug, Vickie, Justine

Level below scale on AHD board.  Level from DELWP continuous monitor. (see photo)

Prior to our observation on the 16th November there had been substantial rain and also quite a few tidal inflows.

For the first time in years a fisherman had caught three of four bream and a salmon. We assume they were coming into their home estuary to spawn.

We have not seen fish in the river for years - because of the acidity. 

Sorry about photos being upside down. I'm sure you can fix them faster than I.

No Wind direction - how to mark this on the data sheet?

Don't know if there is a tidal influence - how to mark this on the data sheet?

Assisted by John Slykhuis

Assisted by Kim Byrne

Note Still flow into Estuary from Ash pond maintenance  Flow visible at Culvert across Coalmine Rd

Assisted by John Slykhuis, Evelyn and Hadley

Bridge AHD indicator obscured Level approximate

Kim Byrne assisting

Artificial opening on Friday 28th January 3pm

Assisted by Kim Byrne

River has changed direction/Shape near mouth

Great deal of white floc deposited on river bottom

Photopoint AP1 has changed Sign is nearly buried and dune has been eaten away  See photo

Note Altered course of river with cutaway of dune on eastern bank

See photo

AHD Scale at bridge dirty, virtually unreadable at these low levels

Ably assisted by Kim Byrne and Coco

Used Williweather tides for Anglesea Beach as in previous instances.

Note that Williweather tides use Pt Lonsdale values but time corrected for Anglesea Longitude.  This is completely different to Lorne nos

Assisted by Rebecca Ecologic

Assisted by marg and Rob

Training session

Forgot to measure the height of the berm looking towards the river mouth

Summer by the Sea activity - D.Murphy 

Berm Height Measurement from Diedre and Elise.  Time between 10:30 am and 12:00

Note that waves from previous high tide (4:06 am) had overtopped the berm.  Berm was at 1.16 + 1.0 = 2.16m AHD.  See 2 photos attached 

Heavy Smoke haze caused postponement of Physico Chem readings until 16/1/20

Broad flat section at Low tide making actual swash level difficult to ascertain

See last photo attached

Mouth opened artificially last week 

Rough seas, high tides over the past week, sea water had entered the estuary as per Neil's videos 

High tide last night spilled over berm all the way to the river mouth - 214m.

Longest berm and lowest river level ever recorded by this team - over the last 6 years.

Asst Sampler Rod Webster

Estuary Depth Gauge at Ocean road Bridge almost unreadable.  Needs clean.

Anglesea river at an all time low for this group of Estuary watchers. Height 1.2m.

Length of berm also a record for this group 230m

Berm ht above sea was 1.45m (low tide)

Berm ht above river was 1m

Assisted by John Slykhuis

Assisted by Gary Robinson

Sea has come over the berm to the estuary.

Unsure of tidal influence 

unclear about photo point A3-5  Sorry

White precipitate from acidic water at high water level.

Photosite Ap2 needs to be moved because of rapid growth of vegetation on the dune, which is blocking out the view of the estuary, probably due to abundant RF this year. Coordinator will record new site before next observation and adjust the relevant documentation.

Sea water had flowed into river on the previous high tide

Note Bush is obscuring photos from AP2 site.  have included photos from a new location closer to the river!

wind may have impacted on height reading at bridge

White precipitate sitting on bottom

low tide, difficult to measure berm

• fish death event earlier this week due to high flows and low pH.

This datasheet was completed during a workshop with the Surf Coast Green Army team.  The estuary was artificially opened earlier that day.  The digger was still operating when we arrived at the estuary mouth at 9:30am.  On this occoasion no photopoint photos were taken because it was unsafe to cross the estuary mouth. See photos.

Berm length 187m.