What’s happening on the riverbank at Wahgunyah?

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Thursday, 3 April 2014 - NSW DPI Office of Water
What’s happening on the riverbank at Wahgunyah?

Riverbank rehabilitation works, including the placement of large logs and rock,
fencing and revegetation are soon to commence on the Murray River at Wahgunyah.
The works will be undertaken by the NSW Office of Water and are part of a river
bank rehabilitation and erosion control program between Hume Dam and Lake
Mulwala that is jointly funded by the NSW Office of Water and the Murray Darling
Basin Authority.
The NSW Office of Water’s program coordinator, Ben Berry said that the program
includes works on both private and public land in both NSW and Victoria that have
been affected by regulated flows from the Hume Dam.
“The works to be undertaken at Wahgunyah are on a section of river bank directly
upstream from the old steam powered flour mill that was built by John Foord in
1859.”
“The works include the placement of logs and rocks to protect the banks, fencing to
exclude stock, revegetation, and the provision of off-stream stock watering if
required.”
“This site has become severely eroded and we are planning to begin work on the
bank here in the coming weeks,” he said.
“The proposed works include using approximately 150 large redgum and box logs
that will be fixed in position with 400 x 4 meter long red gum pins driven into the river
bed.”
“This will stabilised the bank and reduce the effects of high flows from river regulation
and wash from speed boats,” said Mr Berry
Once this work is completed, a revegetation program will be undertaken to plant
locally native plants that will help stabilise the bank and provide habit for native wild
life.
Mr Berry said that this project will cost approximately $80,000 and is one of several
sites being rehabilitated by the NSW Office of Water.
For more information on the River Murray Works Program, contact the NSW Office of
Water’s Albury office on 02 60248830.

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That will be pretty good news for the locals.  Pam's nephews spend a lot of time fishing down there, although the stretch they are talking about is very popular with water skiers, the structure on the edges will bring the Cod back.  Wahgunyah is a little border town on the Murray between Rutherglen and Corowa, the home of Uncle Toby's.