G8140060 – Cullen River at Railway Bridge
The gauging station was established in September 2004 on behalf of DIPE Roads Division, who requested an installation that provided a rising river warning. The Stuart Highway bridge over the Cullen River has a deck value of 6.2 metres to a local gauge datum (GD) and the railway bridge having a deck value of 11.5 metres.
NOTE: At this stage all data for the event is considered raw, un-validated and un-corrected.
Validated data will be provided on this website as it becomes available.
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Hydrographic Event Details
• Peak measured on logger = 9.55m 07:40 27/12/2011
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• Note: this site is not rated therefore no flow information is available for this site.
• Flood mark upstream side of rail bridge= 10.116m
• Flood mark downstream side of rail bridge= 9.213m
Damage incurred during the Event
Summary:
- This site had the orifice line destroyed as the right bank was eroded away.
Images:
The gauging station is located close to the top of the railway abutment.
Flood marks in the base of the gauging station.
The line of trees alongside the railway bridge abutment on the other of which the orifice line used to measure the water level.
The end of the orifice at the point of measurement after the flood. The orifice line was left floating on top of the water.