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Lake Condah reborn

9/23/2010

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In March the traditional Gunditjmara weir that held back Lake Condah at its outlet into Darlot Creek was rebuilt. After all the recent rains, Lake Condah has been reborn with water now flowing strongly over the weir.  It's a wonderful sight, which some friends and I saw last week.
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Lake Condah is at the heart of the Budj Bim landscape. When I started research with the Gunditjmara editorial committee some three years ago the lake was a turbid puddle with cattle milling about. Once a permanent 250 hectare feature of the landscape, one hundred years of drainage schemes for agriculture had reduced it to this sorry state.

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In March this year, the traditional Gunditjmara weir that held back Lake Condah at its outlet into Darlot Creek was rebuilt. 
After all the recent rains over the last two months, Lake Condah has been reborn with water now flowing strongly over the weir.
  It's a wonderful sight, which some friends and I saw last week.

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7/10/2012 06:45:53 am

Interesting thoughts.

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    Gib Wettenhall lives on a bush block on top of the Divide at  Mollongghip, half way between Ballarat and Daylesford.

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