Streamflows - August 2011
Low rainfalls combined with unseasonably warm weather during August contributed to a change in the pattern of stream runoff across the State seen in recent months.
Only one station of 28 representative gauging stations recorded above average flows at the end of August, located on the Snowy River downstream of Basin Creek. The Avoca River at Coonooer again recorded flows below 10% of the long-term August average, as well as Woady Yaloak River at Cressy in western Victoria. Twenty stations recorded flows between 10 and 60% of the long-term August average at the end of the month. The remaining five stations recorded flows between 60 and 99% of the long-term August average.
At the end of the month, flow at all stations was higher than the historical minimum for August and the average flows recorded during August of the 2006/07 drought.
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)