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The Moorabool River is a river in Victoria, Australia, which runs for 160 kilometres [1] through several small towns such as Meredith, Anakie, and Staughton Vale. It runs into the Barwon River at Fyansford. It is believed that the name Moorabool derives from an Aboriginal word meaning the cry of a curlew or a ghost. [2]
Fed by the confluence of the East and West Branches of the river, the Barwon River rises in the Otway Ranges and flows generally north by east and then east, joined by thirteen tributaries including the Leigh and Moorabool rivers and flowing through Lake Connewarre, before reaching its mouth and emptying into Bass Strait at Barwon Heads.
Maroondah Reservoir from above. Shot on 4 April 2022. Constructed in the 1920s by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, it is now operated by Melbourne Water. [3] Like most of Melbourne's water harvesting reservoirs, the entire catchment is eucalypt forest completely closed to human activity, as is the reservoir itself.
Dec. 4—Heavy rains over the past two weeks have had little impact on water levels at the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County's Beaver Run Reservoir. Officials in mid-November issued a ...
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Lake Shasta, shown above, is California's largest reservoir. On Nov. 19, when the first photo was taken, it sat at 31% of capacity, according to the California Department of Water Resources .
It rises in wetlands in Moorabool and debouches at Corio Quay, Corio Bay. After 1909, the Geelong Harbour Trust excavated the mouth of Cowies Creek to create Corio Quay.
Lake Oroville, the state's second-biggest reservoir, filled up as well. Data from the Department of Water Resources showed it was 100% full on May 20. It too saw water releases but still reached ...