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Estuary event details

Estuary Anglesea River Estuary
Region Corangamite CMA
Event type Water level
Date and time 22 August 2025 09:00am
Description
  • Corangamite CMA staff visited the Anglesea River estuary two days after an artificial estuary opening that took place on the 20th of August. 
  • Water was still flowing steadily out to sea and had scoured sand to form a deeper channel than what was seen on the day of the opening. (markings on pole in images are every 10cm)
  • Water level recorded from the  235278A ANGLESEA RIVER AT GREAT OCEAN ROAD BRIDGE monitoring station has dropped from 1.738 m at the time of the opening to 1.44m at 9:00am. 
  • There was a similar amount of dead fish to what was seen the previous day along the water line of the river mouth. 
  •  There were two large dead Black Bream seen in the swash zone about 100m up the beach towards the Anglesea Surf Life Saving Club.  They looked like that had died recently. 
  • We walked into the outcrop of rushes and sedges  upstream of where the river intercepts the sea.  There was a shallow channel alongside the rushes that had 20+ dead Yellow Eyed Mullet, 1 Black Bream and 1 Flounder.  The flocculant looked to be concentrated here too. 
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