Commissioners Creek Culvert After July Rain

Commissioners Creek culvert construction budget - $590,000

(Collector culvert construction budget - $220,000)

You can view a map of the location of this bridge here

These are photographs taken on Sunday, 18 July 2010, after the recent rainfalls.
The Commissioners Creek culvert should be an indication of what Collector Creek will look like when the new Collector Creek culvert is installed.
Keep in mind that this culvert has a budget almost three times as much as Collector, and so will be sized and styled down accordingly, with no budget for guardrails of any description (according to Phil Newham,ULSC Works, July 2010).

It is difficult to imagine that the installation of this culvert has not impeded the passageway of fish, endangered or otherwise, as the water can no longer follow it's own natural channel. It is now forced to sheet out over the immense concrete slab base. The current depth of this sheet of water is approximately 10 millimetres (!).
Whilst locals assure us that once they fished here, this creek is now a shadow of its former self, even after this substantial rain in recent days

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Commissioners Creek Culvert (Note - The guard-railing pictured here will not be on Collectors version - the budget doesn't allow for it)	Commissioners Creek Culvert Upstream trickle - no trace of the original creek-bed
Commissioners Creek Culvert Downstream - can fish make it across this concrete platform, wider than even the culvert width itself?	Commissioners Creek Culvert Downstream is now a table spill-way - the current can no longer flow in a channel under the road that fish could traverse

You can view earlier Commissioners Creek photos of the new culvert and it's surrounds here here

Wowagin Creek Culvert After July Rain

Wowagin Creek culvert construction budget - $425,000

(Collector culvert construction budget - $220,000)

You can view a map of the location of this bridge here

Just a km or two away from Commissioners Creek Culvert is Wowagin Creek Culvert

At nearly twice the budget of Collector Creek Culvert, this culvert at Wowagin does not have enough water to even flow under the culvert.
Despite these good recent rainfalls, as there is almost no water flow - has the culvert affected the creek flow, or was it just a tiny creek with a very large, expensive culvert installed over it?

These are photographs taken on 21 July 2010, after the recent rainfalls.

Wowagin Creek Culvert Culverts change the flow of water - sometimes to a stand-still	Commissioners Creek Culvert down-stream. The culvert slab is higher than the creek-bed - there is no flow

You can view earlier Wowagin Creek photos of the new culvert and it's surrounds here here

You can read the ULSC Business Paper referring to these bridges here: Upper Lachlan Shire Council Business Paper May 2010 (Works and Operations Department) - Page nos. B8, B9

Go to the bridge tour of the Upper Lachlan Shire page here

Why is Collector Creek so undervalued by Council?
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