EstuaryWatch Data Portal

Cody White; age 8 assisted with monitoring & reporting.

Estuary appears to have been artificially opened.

State recorded as "Perched".  Although observation was only half an hour after high tide; there was no flow present at that time, but clearly there had been recent flow, and the "berm" was effectively a moist sand watercourse.

The mouth is open at high tide with the ocean overtopping the berm. At low tide the mouth was closed with the berm being 0.3m above both the sea and the estuary and 65m in length. The water level rose from 1.72m at 9.30 to 1.74 at 16.55

The estuary opening and flow was at the extreme eastern end of the inlet and hard up against the cliff face.

Quite heavy rain overnight >16mm

Summer holidays, so lots of visitors on the beach

Estuary open

Estuary is open, so no berm measurement taken.

Estuary had been artificially opened during the week.

Still open and no berm measurement taken.

Signs that waves have washed overb the berm and into the estuary.

Unable to do photopoint & berm measurement at preferred time of hightide: 17:20.  However there is little variation between high and low tide on this day.

I've noted Mouth State as "Perched" (?)

The berm is present with breaking waves washing over and into the estuary.

The mouth is in it's natural state with recent intervention or "un-natural" opening.

Estuary open, no berm measurement taken

Thankyou for replacing the AHD gauge.

AHD Gauge is partly detatched from its support and is very dirty and difficult to read. Creek level is so low it is below the AHD Gauge, so creek level is a best guess/estimate.

Estuary is open and no berm measurement taken.

Estuary open"berm not measured.

Creek level was so low AHD gauge was unreadable.  See photo.  So AHD is best estimate.

Estuary mouth open - no berm measurement taken.

Conditions overcast

Estuary open.  Berm not measured.

Vegetation is starting to block view from Photopoint Pp1_1 (191).  Estuary is flowing to/open on the left hand side of photo and not really visible in the photo.

Rivermouth artificially opened in the week leading up to measurement.

No berm measumement taken , only weather observations & Photopoint photos,

Rivermouth recently artificially opened.

Artificial opening channel through the berm is still in place and visible although there is no flow at the time of measurement.

Tide times mixed up and measurement done at low tide rather than high tide.

Estuary open after artificial opening on Thursday 8/8/2019.

Berm measured just before the artificial opening of the estuary

Berm height above sea greater than 2 metres

Wet sand indicates waves have washed over the berm at high tide.

A very dirty AHD sign has made it difficult to accurately guage water level.