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Gunbower Creek

Gunbower Creek
As the southern border to Gunbower Forest, Gunbower Creek is also a priority for healthy waterway flows.
Gunbower Creek is one of the region's most important waterways, with high environmental, cultural and economic values.
However, it is also one of the region's most degraded. Gunbower Creek is managed primarily as an irrigation carrier and supplies the Torrumbarry Irrigation Area from the Murray River.
The daily variation in the creek through spring, summer and autumn is much higher now than under natural conditions because of irrigation. The result is significant environmental impacts on native fish populations.
Gunbower Creek is home to natives such as the endangered Murray cod and golden perch. The high diversity of fish in the creek means it is considered a valuable refuge and source of fish for the recolonisation of surrounding waterways.
Healthy river flows are used to smooth out this variation by filling the irrigation-flow gaps.
This supports fish migration and breeding, and promotes other ecological process while maintaining water for surrounding farms and businesses.

Gunbower Creek
No current water for the environment deliveries.
From the 15 May 2021, Gunbower Creek draw down to a series of pools below Cohuna Weir to facilitate the construction of fishways at Koondrook and Cohuna Weirs.
The creek will be filled again in early August prior to commencement of the irrigation season on 15 August 2021.
Click here for more information about the construction of the fishways.