Aerial photos of Warragamba Dam by my son Steve

[gregbradley]

My son Steve flew over Warragmaba Dam in his Cessna on Sunday whilst it was in flood and took some aerial photos.

I processed them to bring them up more:

http://www.pbase.com/image/141916775
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141916776
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141916781
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141916783
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141916784
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141917077
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141917081
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/141917082

Greg.

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Thanks for showing us his pics Greg.

That's a LOT of water!

[gregbradley]

Last time the floodgates were open was in 1998. So its a rare event.


Greg.

[hotspur (Chris)]

good to see some images like this,that is a long time ago since last opened!

[gregbradley]

Thanks Chris.

Yes it was definitely a rare opportunity.

Greg.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Thanks for showing us his pics Greg.

That's a LOT of water!

I saw something in one of the papers that Warragamba holds 2,079 gigalitres and since it started spilling they had released about 350 gigalitres and increasing. That's about 17% of design capacity.

[gregbradley]

Amazing. The Hawkesbury River was extremely swollen twice in the last week and got closed once for several hours.

Greg.