(c)hobartdaily.com - The Craigbourne dam was this week annouced as empty

In the news this week was the announcement that the Craigbourne Dam was officially empty. A little over 11 months ago i visited the area and at that time the dam level was at 10% of capacity. Thanks to another year of drought the water level dropped and is now empty. As the water leveldropped it exposed the original water course of the river, an old bridge and plants, all of which were drowned when the dam was built. When i was there today the water wasn’t flowing at all. It was kind of surreal seeing stuff that had for so long been under water.

The area has now that i look back provided a number of photos that i have published here including the shot from february 2008, Cracked Earth, Hat, Rust, Reel and Metal.

This post is also significant as it is one of the few times thanks to the 200km between the areas that i include for this blog and my other daily photoblog Bicheno Daily that I have posted pictures from both areas taken on the same day.