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WimmeraCas Rivertlerea Pghro Rfiliever Profile 350 Macquarie River Profile 500 Wimmera Terrawinda Creek flows into Castlereagh RiverWIMMERA RIVER River Campbells River Murrumbidgee River Profile 450 700 Terminal 1,600 300 Ben Chiffley Dam (15.5 GL) Bathurst Macquarie Marshes (A13) Mid-Murrumbidgee Wetlands LowerLegend Murrumbidgee city or town Binnaway Khancoban Reservoir (20 GL) River Murray 400 Wetlands (A14) (A18) Floodplain (A12) F42) point of interest (place, lake, etc) ( 1,400 Eversley 600 Geehi River Tooma River Billabong Creek Long Plain hydrologic indicator site Mount Horsham Irrigation District Geehi Reservoir Tooma Reservoir weir Mendooran William Creek 250 Tantangara River Murray Coleambally Outfall Drain at Bathurst Tantangara Reservoir Lake Eucumbene 1 Tumut Pond Reservoir (53 GL) inflow 350 Bogan River 1,200 Jack Halls Creek (254 GL) outflow Joel 500 Edward River Coleambally Irrigation District F47) Magometon Creek Ulinda Creek ( irrigation diversion Eversley Weir Quantong Cotter River (this isn't named, East Channel Tombullen Reservoir power station so please do it as Billabong Creek at Darlot (F110) 300 1,000 Gilgandra 200 a shaded area) ) Corin Dam (71 GL) at Glenorchy Dundomalle Lake ) Darlot m ) Joel Weir at Mendooran 400 ( ) Fish River flows into Macquarie m Ganaway Lake ( Charlton Channel n m Woodslands Weir F86) m ( ( o ( n i Bendora Dam (11 GL) Cudgegong River (flows into the dam) Nowie Lake F48) t ( o n n i Warrena Weir a t Mittagang Crossing o Googong Dam (121 GL) o i 800 v Windamere Dam (368 GL) 250 i Macomman Lake Gulargambone a t t Burrendong Dam(1188 GL) e v a l a Cotter Dam (3 GL) Paika Lake e v v l E Rocklands Outlet Channel e e Breelong Creek Irrigation l Winburndale River l E Queanbeyan River Pitarpunga Lake E irrigation area starts E Wellington Longerenong Weir 153000 Turon River Cotter River diversion Glynwylln Weir Tin Tin Lake at Gilgandra canal Abert Priest Channel Glenorchy Dubbo Drung (locality) Toni Lake 600 r Molonglo RiveF43) r Lake Burley Griffin Water to the Billabong Creek Bredbo r 200 ( Coonamble upstream of Lake Hindmarsh Narromine Glenorchy Weir Parliamentary upstream of Dimboola Canberra Pyramul Creek Lowbidgee Flood Control and Irrigation District Triangle Darlington Point F88) ( Gin r irrigation diversion canal Colyambally Canal Warren Weir (1 GL) Campbells Bridge Weir Legend Horsham F87) ( F44) Dimboola ( Warren 200 city or town Burrinjuck Dam (1,028 GL) Baronne Creek Bredbo Rive Marebone Weir + fishway irrigation area ends Legend F49) 400 Five Mile Cowal ( Numeralla Rive Barwon River Wanourie Creek 150 100 Barwon River Womat Creek Marthaguy Creek citypoint or oftown interest (place, lake, etc) Bell River flows into Castlereagh River Mackenzie River Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Jeparit F45) Legend F63) ( Macquarie River Yanco Creek hydrologic indicator site ( hydrologic indicator site Gumly Irrigation District Lake Hindmarsh (10,000 GL) F65) city or town Lake Albacutya (10,000 GL) Ramsar site r Quantong (key environmental function site) Gudgenby Rive ( Gundagai Horsham Weir Murrumbidgee at Main canal diverters flows into Talbragar River Yarriambiack Creek weir r Berembed Weir (10 GL) Outlet Creek ends point of interest (place, lake, etc) Murrumbidgee River downstream of Balranald Weir Lachlan River inflow (only during very high flow periods) Yanco Weir Gogeldrie Weir (7 GL) 200 weir Coolbaggie Creek Barwon River Narrandera Hay Irrigation Area (various diversion points) Irrigation diverters F66) 100 at Coonamble ( F46) Wambangalong Creek Outlet Creek starts inflow Carrathool in wetland area 100 ( Hay Hay Weir (14 GL) at Gin inflowhydrologic indicator site Maude Weir (5 GL) F67) Balranald Weir (5 GL) Balranald North Redbank Channel ( Yass Rive Waldaira Lake outflow downstream of Burrendong Dam weir flows into 50 outflow Gunningbar Creek inflow Jeparit Weir River Murray irrigation diversion Nebea Creek 0 at Carinda outflow Sturt Canal diverters Goodradigbee Rive Jugiong Creek Nedgera Creek Murrumbidgee River at Burrinjuck Dam inflow 50 Tumut River 0 Hillas Creek Wagga hydrologic indicator site Redbank Adelong Creek Muttama Creek (A18) irrigation diversion Weir (5 GL) (key environmental asset site) Yanga Lake 0 100 200 300 Tarcutta Creek 400 Murrumbidgee5 00 600 700 800 Old Man Creek Kyeamba Creek power station Irrigation District Uara Creek Uara Creek Houlaghans Creek Distance (km) 0 Chainage (km) Tombullen Swamp 0 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 Distance (km) Distance (km) 0 50 100 The average time it 1takes50 for water to flow down the Murrumbidgee200 from Burrinjuck Dam to the250 River Murray confluence is approx30imately0 26 days 350 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500.
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