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Macquarie Profile

Murrumbidgee River Profile 700 1,600 flows into Legend Mid-Murrumbidgee Lower Murrumbidgeecity or town (20 GL) River Murray (A13) Wetlands (A14) Floodplainpoint of interest(A12) (place, lake, etc) 600 1,400 hydrologic indicator site

Bathurst (key environmental function site) Long Plain Primary irrigation area Geehi Reservoir Tooma Reservoir weir Tantangara

River Murray Outfall Drain at Bathurst ( F42) Tantangara Reservoir Lake Eucumbene 1 Pond Reservoir (53 GL) inflow

1,200 (254 GL) outflow

500 Coleambally Irrigation District irrigation diversion Tombullen Reservoir fish passage Billabong Creek at Darlot (F110) 1,000 Corin (71 GL) Dundomallehydrologic Lake indicator site ) (A13) Darlot 400 ) (key environmental asset site)

m Ganaway Lake ( m

( n (11 GL) Nowie Lake o i t Mittagang Crossing o n (121 GL)

i 800 Macomman Lake a t Dam (15 GL) v a (3 GL) Paika Lake e v l Winburndale River e ( F43) downstream of l Wellington E River Pitarpunga Lake E 300 Cotter River Tin Tin Lake

Dubbo (F46) Marthaguy Creek at Toni Lake 600 Water to the Albert Priest Channel Billabong Creek Parliamentary Gin Lowbidgee Flood Control and Irrigation District Pyramul Creek Triangle r Colyambally Canal Warren Weir (1 GL)

(368 GL) Warren 200 (1,028 GL) Bredbo Rive r Bell River 400 Marebone Weir Numeralla Rive r Marthaguy Creek Legend ( F45) Creek at ( F44) ( F63) Miltara city or town Gumly Irrigation District Gudgenby Rive ( F65) at Wagga Burrendong Dam (1,188 GL) Main canal diverters

Talbragar River flows into r

point of interest (place, lake, etc) Berembed Weir (10 GL) inflow (only during very high flow periods) Yanco Weir Gogeldrie Weir (7 GL) 200 Coolbaggie Creek Barwon River Hay Irrigation Area (various diversion points) Irrigation diverters

100 at Gin ( F66) Murrumbidgee at Wambangalong Creek Hay Hay Weir (14 GL)

hydrologic indicator site Maude Weir (5 GL) Weir (5 GL) Balranald North Redbank Channel ( F67) Murrumbidgee River downstream of Balranald Weir Yass Rive r Waldaira Lake weir flows into Gunningbar Creek inflow Five Mile Creek River Murray 0

outflow Sturt Canal diverters Goodradigbee Rive Creek Murrumbidgee River at Burrinjuck Dam inflow

0 Hillas Creek Wagga Redbank Muttama Creek irrigation diversion Weir (5 GL) Yanga Lake

Tarcutta Creek Murrumbidgee

Distance (km) Old Man Creek Kyeamba Creek

power station Irrigation District Uara Creek Uara Creek Houlaghans Creek Distance (km)

0 100 200 300 400 500 Tombullen Swamp 600 700 800 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 The average time it takes for water to flow down the Murrumbidgee from Burrinjuck Dam to the River Murray is approximately 26 days