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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.
The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool and on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line, 108 kilometres (67 mi) west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Lal Lal and the surrounding area had a population of 476. [1] Lal Lal Falls and the Lal Lal Reservoir on the Moorabool River are to the north-east and east of the town. [2] [3]
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 ...
Turbidity levels at the North Fork Reservoir are at 15.3, down only slightly from the Nov. 13 conditions, due to wind. ... was unable to treat raw reservoir water with zinc orthophosphate, which ...
In the 2023-24 water year, the state added 4.1 million acre-feet — almost the volume of Lake Shasta — to its depleted groundwater stock by sending excess water from rivers into open spaces ...
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.
The water level at Spruce Run has dropped by a little more than a foot since Oct. 11. At the same time the amount of water in the reservoir has dropped from 4.32 billion gallons to 4.03 billion.