33-788: Nangus is a village on the Wagga Wagga to Gundagai Road on the north side of the Murrumbidgee River . From Nangus, Junee , Gundagai , Wantabadgery , Oura and Wagga Wagga are accessible. Nangus is approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) due west of Gundagai in the Riverina area of Australia and in Gundagai Council . At the 2011 census , Nangus and the surrounding area had a population of 420. The nearby Nangus Station and Yabtree Station are heritage listed. Nangus Post Office opened on 1 July 1897. Nangus has
66-885: A major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia . It flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory , descending 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) over 1,485 kilometres (923 mi), generally in a west-northwesterly direction from the foot of Peppercorn Hill in the Fiery Range of the Snowy Mountains towards its confluence with
99-497: A name used by Indigenous Australians : Here we may remark on the tenacity with which the Murrumbidgee River long eluded the eye of the white man. It is scarcely probable that Meehan and Hume, who on this occasion were within comparatively easy reach of the head waters, could have seen a new inland river at that time without mentioning the fact, but there is no record traceable anywhere as to the date of its discovery, or
132-399: A post office, Anglican church, general store, with an off-site liquor licence, public school, public hall, fire station, petrol station, tennis courts, and hockey fields amongst some of its services and attractions. [REDACTED] Media related to Nangus, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons Murrumbidgee River The Murrumbidgee River ( / m ʌr ə m ˈ b ɪ dʒ i / ) is
165-475: A roadway, called Lady Denman Drive, and a bicycle path. The roadway was possible because the dam gates are closed by pushing up from below, unlike most previous designs that wherein the gates were lifted from above. The National Capital Authority , a statutory authority of the Australian Government , is responsible for the administration and oversight of Scrivener Dam, as the dam lies within
198-562: A transport route, with paddle steamers navigating the river as far as Gundagai . The river trade declined with the coming of the railways. Paddle steamers last used the Murrumbidgee in the 1930s. To allow the steamers and towed barges to pass, there were opening bridges at Hay , Balranald , and Carathool The river has risen above 7 metres (23 ft) at Gundagai nine times between 1852 and 2010, an average of just under once every eleven years. Since 1925, flooding has been minor with
231-571: A very poor condition in the Murray-Darling basin with fish stocks in both rivers were also rated as extremely poor, with only 13 of the original 22 native fish species still found in the Murrumbidgee River. The Murrumbidgee River runs through the traditional lands of the Ngarigo, Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri , Nari Nari and Muthi Muthi Aboriginal peoples. The Murrumbidgee River was known to Europeans before they first recorded it. In 1820
264-571: Is a concrete gravity dam that impounds the Molonglo River in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory . The dam creates Lake Burley Griffin , which was established for recreational and ornamental purposes. Named in honour of surveyor Charles Scrivener , the dam was officially inaugurated on 20 September 1963 ( 1963-09-20 ) and the official filling of the lake commemorated on 17 October 1964 ( 1964-10-17 ) by
297-703: Is suggested that the Upper Murrumbidgee is an anabranch of the Tumut River (that once continued north along Mutta Mutta Creek) when geological uplift near Adaminaby diverted its flow. From Gundagai onwards the rivers flow within its ancestral channel. In June 2008 the Murray-Darling Basin Commission released a report on the condition of the Murray–Darling basin , with the Goulburn and Murrumbidgee Rivers rated in
330-669: The Designated Area , under the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act, 1988 (Cth). The Authority manages external contractors to deliver services that are competitively tendered. A routine annual audit of the dam wall undertaken during 2011 revealed that the anchor bolts, which are part of the flap gate hinge mechanism, showed signs of corrosion. These bolts, of which there are 120 in total, are each 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in diameter and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) long. It
363-564: The Murray River . The river flows for 66 kilometres (41 mi) through the Australian Capital Territory near Canberra , picking up the important tributaries of the Gudgenby , Queanbeyan , Molonglo and Cotter Rivers . The Murrumbidgee drains much of southern New South Wales and all of the Australian Capital Territory, and is an important source of irrigation water for the Riverina farming area. The reaches of
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#1732786879398396-785: The Prime Minister , Robert Menzies . The dam wall is located on Lady Denman Drive and is adjacent to the National Zoo & Aquarium and a viewing area for the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia . Scrivener Dam, designed in Germany , holds back the waters of the Molonglo River within Lake Burley Griffin. About 55,000 cubic metres (1,900,000 cu ft) of concrete
429-514: The ACT is effectively half the river it used to be. The reduced and significantly modified flow of the river is further exasperated by dams on its tributaries, such as Scrivener Dam , Cotter Dam , and Googong Dam . A study suggests a section of the upper river's channels are relatively new in geological terms, dating from the early Miocene (the Miocene era being from 23 to 5 million years ago). It
462-496: The East Basin. With three sluice valves open, outflows of 55 m /s (1,900 cu ft/s) can be achieved through either automatic or manual operation of the dam. A minimum base flow of 0.03 m /s (1.1 cu ft/s) is required in the Molonglo River, downstream of Scrivener Dam at the gauging station below Coppins Crossing. A prolonged drought coincided with and eased work on the lake's construction. The valves on
495-539: The Murray River near Boundary Bend . The word Murrumbidgee or Marrambidya means "big water" in the Wiradjuri language , one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages . The river itself flows through several traditional Aboriginal Australian lands, home to various Aboriginal peoples. In the Australian Capital Territory, the river is bordered by a narrow strip of land on each side; these are managed as
528-607: The Murrumbidgee River Corridor (MRC). This land includes many nature reserves , eight recreation reserves, a European heritage conservation zone and rural leases. The mainstream of the river system flows for 900 kilometres (560 mi). The river's headwaters arise from the wet heath and bog at the foot of Peppercorn Hill situated along Long Plain which is within the Fiery Range of the Snowy Mountains ; and about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Kiandra . From its headwaters it flows to its confluence with
561-471: The Murrumbidgee River including Wagga Wagga, where the river peaked at 10.56 metres (34.6 ft) on 6 March 2012. This peak was 0.18 metres (0.59 ft) below the 1974 flood level of 10.74 metres (35.2 ft). Major wetlands along the Murrumbidgee or associated with the Murrumbidgee catchment include: Download coordinates as: The Murrumbidgee River has about 90 named tributaries in total; 24 rivers, and numerous creeks and gullies. The ordering of
594-599: The Murrumbidgee in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) are affected by the complete elimination of large spring snowmelt flows and a reduction of average annual flows of almost 50%, due to Tantangara Dam . Tantangara Dam was completed in 1960 on the headwaters of Murrumbidgee River and diverted approximately 99% of the river's flow at that point into Lake Eucumbene . This has extremely serious effects on native fish populations and other native aquatic life and has led to serious siltation, stream contraction, fish habitat loss, and other problems. The Murrumbidgee where it enters
627-513: The Scrivener Dam were closed on 20 September 1963 by Interior Minister Gordon Freeth ; Prime Minister Menzies was absent due to ill health. Several months on, with no rain in sight, mosquito-infested pools of water were the only visible sign of the lake filling. With the eventual breaking of the drought and several days of heavy rain, the lake filled, and reached the planned level on 29 April 1964. On 17 October 1964, Menzies commemorated
660-519: The actual river in April 1821. In 1823, Brigade-Major John Ovens and Captain Mark Currie reached the upper Murrumbidgee when exploring south of Lake George . In 1829, Charles Sturt and his party rowed down the lower half of the Murrumbidgee River in a stoutly built, large row-boat, from Narrandera to the Murray River, and then down the Murray River to the sea. They rowed back upstream, against
693-470: The bank opposite its embouchure , whilst we continued to gaze in silent astonishment on the capacious channel [of the Murray River] we had entered ... The Murrumbidgee basin was opened to settlement in the 1830s and soon became an important farming area. Ernest Favenc , when writing on Australian exploration, commented on the relatively tardy European discovery of the river and that the river retained
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#1732786879398726-398: The basin, from source to mouth, of the major tributaries is: The list below notes past and present bridges that cross over the Murrumbidgee River. There were numerous other crossings before the bridges were constructed and many of these still exist today. a replacement for this bridge in 2020. Download coordinates as: and 2020 and 2009 Scrivener Dam Scrivener Dam
759-505: The current to their starting point. Sturt's description of their passage through the junction of the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers is dramatic. His description of wild strong currents in the Murrumbidgee— in the middle of summer (14 January 1830), when flows are declining and close to the seasonal summer/autumn minimum, is in contrast to the reduced flow seen at the junction today in mid-summer: The men looked anxiously out ahead; for
792-512: The exception of floods in 1974 and in December 2010, when the river rose to 10.2 metres (33 ft) at Gundagai. In the 1852 disaster, the river rose to just over 12.2 m (40 ft). The following year the river again rose to just over 12.5 m (41 ft). The construction of Burrinjuck Dam from 1907 has significantly reduced flooding but, despite the dam, there were major floods in 1925, 1950, 1974 and 2012. The most notable flood
825-475: The explorer Charles Throsby informed the Governor of New South Wales that he anticipated finding "a considerable river of salt water (except at very wet seasons), called by the natives Mur-rum-big-gee". In the expedition journal, Throsby wrote as a marginal note: "This river or stream is called by the natives Yeal-am-bid-gie ..." . The river he had stumbled upon was in fact the Molonglo River , Throsby reached
858-573: The filling of the lake and the completion of stage one with an opening ceremony amid the backdrop of sailing craft. This was accompanied by fireworks display, and Griffin's lake had finally come to fruition after five decades, at the cost of A$ 5,039,050. The dam, together with Lake Burley Griffin and adjacent lands, is listed on the Register of the National Estate , a listing of places of significant natural and cultural heritage. Since 2012,
891-402: The flap gates; with six hinges per gate, and four anchors per hinge. The fish-belly gates allow for a precise control of water level, reducing the dead area on the banks between high and low water levels. As at November 2010, the five gates have only been opened simultaneously once in the dam's history, during heavy flooding in 1976. The dam wall provides a crossing for the lake and consists of
924-581: The name of its finder. When in 1823 Captain Currie and Major Ovens were led along its bank on to the beautiful Maneroo country by Joseph Wild, the stream was then familiar to the early settlers and called the Morumbidgee. Even in 1821, when Hume found the Yass Plains, almost on its bank, he makes no special mention of the river. From all this we may deduce the extremely probable fact that the position of
957-412: The river was shown to some stockrider by a native, who also confided the aboriginal name, and so it gradually worked the knowledge of its identity into general belief. This theory is the more feasible as the river has retained its native name. If a white man of any known position had made the discovery, it would at once have received the name of some person holding official sway. The river was once used as
990-444: The singular change in the river had impressed on them an idea, that we were approaching its termination ... We were carried at a fearful rate down its gloomy and contracted banks ... At 3 p.m., Hopkinson called out that we were approaching a junction, and in less than a minute afterwards, we were hurried into a broad and noble river ... such was the force with which we had been shot out of the Morumbidgee, that we were carried nearly to
1023-471: Was anticipated that work would be completed by the end of 2013, and cost A$ 20m. Scrivener Dam is operated in an environment that minimises flooding of the environs of Lake Burley Griffin. Flows of 2,000 m /s (71,000 cu ft/s) and above at the dam spillway are achieved with all five flap gates open and are able to maintain the normal level of the Lake at 555.93 metres (1,823.9 ft), measured at
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1056-498: Was in 1852 when the town of Gundagai was swept away and 89 people, a third of the town's population, were killed. The town was rebuilt on higher ground. In 1925, four people died and the flooding lasted for eight days. The reduction in floods has consequences for wildlife, particularly birds and trees. There has been a decline in bird populations and black box flood plain eucalypt forest trees are starting to lose their crowns. Major flooding occurred during March 2012 along
1089-515: Was used in the construction of the dam wall. The dam is 33 metres (108 ft) high and 319 metres (1,047 ft) long with a maximum wall thickness of 19.7 metres (65 ft). The dam is designed to handle a once in 5,000 year flood event. It utilised state-of-the-art post-tensioning techniques to cope with any problems or movements in the riverbed. The dam has five bay spillways controlled by 30.5 metres (100 ft) wide, hydraulically operated fish-belly flap gates . Hinge anchors support
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