River gauge is hard to read due to dirt covering many of the numbers. 

Nine days after the flood. Piles of debris, large and small remain on the beach. Although there has been some cleaned up into piles by GORCAPA. Lagoon is reforming. River channel has moved east. Sand accumulating at the surf club ramp. Rocks still exposed where the beach was scoured out by the flood. The eroded banks next to the foreshore campground have been flattened out by GORCAPA machinery.

Three days after the devastating flood on Thursday 15th January we completed our observations of the river mouth and took a range of photos. Huge logs and debris all over the beach. Tree fern trunks on the beach and in the rockpool zone. River channel is running straight out to sea. In previous weeks the channel had hugged the foreshore adjacent to the Great Ocean Road. Rocks exposed on beach from the flood. High sand banks next to Foreshore Campground due to sand being eroded away from floodwater. The river gauge is unreadable as it is high and dry about the water level. Looking upstream and downstream from the vicinity of the bridge there are piles of trees and other vegetation blocking the channel or on the river bank.

Erina Officer is a volunteer at WW and EW She participated on 4/1/26 at EW and WW

Her email is  eofficer@mwy.com.au 

She was was not on the database so I couldn't add her name 

 Can her name please be added.

There are two sets of photos  for EW. First set in the current location on the steps to the beach. Another set from the new bridge , near where we originally had our photopoint, before the bridge works.

Wyp2 , 350, 30, 70, 100 are taken from the steps going down to the beach 

Another set was taken from the bridge , The compass degrees are not yet specified for the “new” Wye bridge location . These are labelled bridge Wyp1- 1,2,3,4.

We looked at a new photopoint site from the bridge and I did take photos. However it is probably best to wait for Georgie to come and ensure we have the best location and compass points.

The recent rainfall and strong high tides have exposed the rocks on the river channel as it exits the estuary to the sea. The high tides have been causing a lot of erosion to the western (Great Ocean Road side) riverbank  

Please add Erina  Officer  and   Roy Moriarty  as volunteers 

They both assisted with the data collection 

Please add Jennifer Wood- she is a new volunteer 

We took an extra photo at compass reading of 110, as suggested on photoguide sheet  -attached.

The river channel continues to travel south, so I have taken extra photos to show its course. Lots of erosion to the west of the channel.

Elsa and Erina also present.

Still lots of algae in estuary upstream of bridge - see photos 5 and 6

Immediately after heavy rain shower

We had new volunteers join us today- Erina Officer, Elsa Mahlstedt and Fran Berry. We have changed our monitoring day to Saturday and welcomed back Mary Eckhardt who did observations a few years ago. The path of the river takes a wider route across the beach so an extra photo has been taken to show that. Also a photo of the water gauge which is quite slimy and a bit hard to read, there's a lot of algae in the river, it has been warm with little rainfall in January.

Photo of water level gauge attached to show visual impact of construction of new Wye River bridge.

Water level below depth gauge.

Water level; the water gauge was covered with sand possibly due to the bridge renewal works. see photo

Water level below depth gauge.  River diverted under bridge to accommodate major works replacing Great Ocean Road Wye River bridge..