Officially Empty
In the news this week was the announcement that the Craigbourne Dam was officially empty. A little over 11 months ago i visited the area and at that time the dam level was at 10% of capacity. Thanks to another year of drought the water level dropped and is now empty. As the water leveldropped it exposed the original water course of the river, an old bridge and plants, all of which were drowned when the dam was built. When i was there today the water wasn’t flowing at all. It was kind of surreal seeing stuff that had for so long been under water.
The area has now that i look back provided a number of photos that i have published here including the shot from february 2008, Cracked Earth, Hat, Rust, Reel and Metal.
This post is also significant as it is one of the few times thanks to the 200km between the areas that i include for this blog and my other daily photoblog Bicheno Daily that I have posted pictures from both areas taken on the same day.
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Old Bridge - Hobart Daily on
Sun, 25th Jan 2009 9:40 pm
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julie scottsdale daily photo on
Mon, 26th Jan 2009 3:45 am
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Richmond Bridge - Hobart Daily on
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 10:49 pm
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Greg on
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 10:57 pm
[...] shot following on from my post yesterday Officially Empty of the Craigbourne Dam being declared empty. This bridge was formely well under the water but now [...]
I love this shot. I went to AUSTRALIA in December and it is a vast country.
[...] has any water running under it in a few weeks as it crosses the same river as the dam that is now officially empty. There is a weir a couple hundred metres down river that may keep the water level up for a [...]
Julie – its a huge country and while i have seen a lot of it there is still a lot more to see! You should come back one day soon 
