3 December 2010

Scrivener dam busted and the Zoo flooding?

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So my cousin is volunteer SES and he has just been called out urgently to Scrivener dam and the Zoo.

Apparently something has happened with the dam and the Zoo is flooding.

UPDATE: We hear the dam is fine.

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georgesgenitals said :

This is almost as exciting as when Halley’s Comet collided with the moon.

I was in Dubbo for a motorcycle event called the Comet Rally in 1986. Looked for the thing through a Green Ginger telescope but saw nothing, must have hit the moon before I got there…

Went past the dam early this morning (3am) and two gates are open letting water out of the lake. I also saw two water works people in the office there I guess they were keeping an eye on the whole thing. I got a decent photo of it and may post later.

georgesgenitals11:17 am 03 Dec 10

This is almost as exciting as when Halley’s Comet collided with the moon.

I love it when a thread about extreme weather results in a post about the unfair treatment of the ornamental fish industry.

astrojax said :

does bunnings sell gopher wood..?

Yeah, but they don’t sell it by the cubit.

JessicaNumber6:23 am 03 Dec 10

The penguins can come stay with me if they need! They can swim in my bathtub and poop on my lawn. Poor pengies and other creatures, I hope they are all ok!

Captain RAAF said :

Do they a piranha exhibit?

Govt and NGO’s need no help from the forces of mother nature to release exotics and translocate natives. Pity they don’t have the knowledge of any organisation like ANGFA.

All this goes on and yet BSG still find it necessary to clamp down on the ornamental fish industry… They needed an easy and convenient target and they found one.

Bastards.

The ground outside the parkway fence of the zoo gets especially soggy, that water is coming from somewhere.

Siphoning?

It’s a zoo AND aquarium – they’re not fussed by a little excess rainwater.

Pommy bastard said :

I only hope the drop bears are safe…

Don’t forget the KangaWallaFoxes.

This evening a Rural Fire Service pumper was at the Zoo.

According to the ACT Police twitter feed, there was a dam burst at the cycle track which forced the closure of Uriarra Road at the intersection of Cotter Road. Which could of been the reported dam burst.

Pommy bastard8:34 pm 02 Dec 10

I only hope the drop bears are safe…

grunge_hippy8:33 pm 02 Dec 10

i dont see how the zoo would flood from the dam, being up on the hill and all…

I just got home from there – nothing to see. two pipe valves open, no gates, no failures

Jivrashia said :

…. I DIDN’T DO IT

I said earlier today:

A little ‘accident’ at the Scriviner Dam will do the job.

Yeah…………..sure you didn’t!

If the north is anything to go by, I’d say they are starting to line up in two’s by now waiting for my neighbours ark (which I swear he’s been building this week!).

The Scrivener car park was popular this evening. I detoured and noticed that the outfall was all on the Zoo end of the dam. Might be something in it.

The zoo is higher that the dam….

Growling Ferret8:12 pm 02 Dec 10

Either 2CC or ABC reported around 5:45 that there was flooding in a number of animal enclosures at the Zoo. There was no suggestion the dam had suffered any issues.

I was just down there but all I could see was this wooden boat floating down the river with all the animals on board.

does bunnings sell gopher wood..?

Captain RAAF7:41 pm 02 Dec 10

Do they a piranha exhibit?

Let’s hope the Red Herring doesn’t escape.

Great, exciting news just after the local news shutdown at 7pm. Won’t be able to find out what’s going on until the next morning and. I hope to wake up to reports of floating lions, escaped pythons and tiger alerts in deakin.

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