Streamflows - October 2010
Rainfall was intermittent throughout October, and the trend of streamflow improvement seen in previous months continued. Heavy rainfall in the last few days of the month caused flooding in parts of eastern Victoria.
Of the 28 representative streamflow gauging stations, two stations located in the Alpine region recorded flows above the long-term October average at the end of the month. A further 23 stations recorded flows between 10 and 79% of the long-term October average.
At the end of the month, three stations located in far east Gippsland, the Wimmera and Moorabool regions recorded flows less than 10% of the long-term October average. However, the end-of-month flow at all stations was higher than the historical minimum for October, and higher than the 2006/07 October drought flow.
In this section
The following are graphs for the 28 streamflow gauging stations, showing long-term average daily streamflow, recorded minimum streamflow, streamflow in the 2006/07 drought and current daily streamflow.
- Glenelg/Wimmera (Glenelg Hopkins catchment, Wimmera catchment)
- Northern Victoria (North Central catchment, Goulburn Broken catchment, North East catchment
- South Central Victoria (Port Phillip catchment, Corangamite catchment)
- Gippsland (West Gippsland catchment, East Gippsland catchment)