on 7/10/02 8:13 PM, Lloyd Charles at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roger Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:43 PM
> Subject: Rivers of Time
>
>
>>
>> Evening in September, spring in an Australian temperate zone, the last
>> vestige of the sun dipping below the horizon, directly ahead far away but
>> seemingly at eye level the high snowclad peaks of a range of mountains are
>> etched sharply against the darkening sky. Before me the River surges in
> all
>> its glory, breathtaking, awesome, deafening, stunning the senses. At least
> a
>> thousand metres wide, roaring with springmelt, frolicking and tumbling
> over
>> the landscape eastwards along a well-worn course.
>>
> Roger - as a small boy I saw the Snowy in full and glorious flight - you
> describe it well!!
>
>
Lloyd & Roger
I saw it when it trickled out of a 110 cm pipe, an icon turned into a
fragmented, stagnant stream down to 1% of its original flow. Noticing any
difference with the increase flow Roger? Would be very interested to hear
what is occurring with the new flow levels and the vegetation that exists in
the heart of the river beds now. Did some hydrology and hydrogeology
studies through there last year, what a huge problem from many aspects;
ecological river flows, thermal pollution, rising water tables from the
irrigation it feeds. Here's to the increased flows and regaining some
balance. You describe it Roger as I had imagined it to be and what I prefer
to visualise it as.
L&L
Liz
