EstuaryWatch Observations

Wild Dog Creek Estuary

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ID	Date	Status	Details
#4263	13 Aug 2010	Approved	Notes: Heavy rain and high tide caused water to cover most of the east end of the beach and the sand dunes and murram grass were swept away. However at low tide the outlet to sea returned to mid beach. The photopoints were 1,2,3,Photos from west end, 4 from bridge, 5 river midbeach and 6 outlet to sea. 1 2 3 4 River on beach Sea outflow
#4624	18 Sep 2010	Approved	Notes: Strong winds on16-17.9.2010 caused the beach to be completely covered by the sea and the sand dunes were washed flat. When the sea retreated the outlet had moved from 450 m along the beach back to 80 m from the west wall. Sea water reached the bridge but no further. Next day the AHD was back to 1.22 with no tidal influence 1 2 3 4 5
#4625	27 Oct 2010	Approved	Notes: The outlet has moved back towards the middle of the beach about 200 m from the west end. Sand has piled up at the back of the beach and the river has cut a bank 1.5-2m deep. Sand continues to pile up at the west wall. 1 2 4 5
#5809	31 Jan 2011	Approved	beach outlet pp1 pp2
#5810	8 Mar 2011	Approved	Notes: Bank on sea side 50cm above river, bank on land side about 75 cm. outlet pp2 pp4
#5811	17 Apr 2011	Approved	outlet outlet pp2 pp4
#5812	15 Jun 2011	Approved	Notes: River level at bridge above the top 2m mark.River has been pushed back along the beach and exits only 70m from east end. For most of the beach the river is only 30 cm below sand level but at far end the sand wall on the land side is more than 2m deep. outlet pp1 pp2 pp4
#5962	16 Jul 2011	Approved	Notes: On weekend of 9/10 July high wind at high tide caused major erosion of the beach especially the western groin. Afterwards the beach was completel flat and the river flowed straight out to sea. The river level was very high but by 16th the level is about 0.5 metres below the bottom scale on the AHD post AHD guage PP1 PP2 PP3 Wall damage Wall damage Wall damage
#6344	17 Aug 2011	Approved	Notes: By 17.8.11 the outflow has moved 100 m eastward and there are high banks 1m deep on both sides of the river but the western end of the groin is rapidly eroding Wp1 Wp2 Wp4
#6345	21 Oct 2011	Approved	Notes: On 17/10/11 Contractors cut a channel straight out to sea and for 5 days moved sand from the middle of the Wild Dog beach to the town beach near end of Marriners Rd finishing on 21/10/11. The depth of the channel was 1m near shore and 1.6 near sea. Channel out to sea Lorry passing cutting Sand dumped at Marriner's Rd Sand dumped at Marriner's Rd Taking sand from beach Taking sand from beach Wp1 Wp2 Wp4