Mary River (Coral Sea)

Mary River Moocooboola
Topographic map sheet showing most of the Mary River to its mouth
Data
location	Queensland ( Australia )
River system	Mary River
source	at Booroobin ( Conondale Range ) 26 ° 47 ′ 43 ″  S , 152 ° 54 ′ 4 ″  E
Source height	209  m
muzzle	Great Sandy Strait / Hervey Bay ( Coral Sea ) at River Heads , across from Fraser Island Coordinates: 25 ° 26 ′ 2 ″  E , 152 ° 55 ′ 41 ″  E 25 ° 26 ′ 2 ″  S , 152 ° 55 ′ 41 ″  E
Mouth height	0  m
Height difference	209 m
Bottom slope	0.72 ‰
length	291 km
Catchment area	9595 km²
Left tributaries	Little Yabba Creek, Yabba Creek, Kandanga Creek, Amamoor Creek, Eel Creek, Glastonbury Creek, Wide Bay Creek, Ooramera Creek, Myrtle Creek, Grahams Creek, Saltwater Creek, Susan River
Right tributaries	Obi Obi Creek, Six Mile Creek, Curra Creek, Slaty Creek, Munna Creek, Gutchy Creek, Oaky Creek, Chinaman Creek, Tinana Creek
Medium-sized cities	Gympie , Maryborough
Small towns	Kenilworth, Tiaro
Communities	Conondale, Brooloo, Imbil, Kandanga, Amamoor, Gunalda, Theobine, Mungar, River Heads
Upper reaches of the Mary River in Conondale

The Mary River is a river in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland .

geography

The river has its source at the Booroobin settlement in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast . From there it flows north through the towns of Kenilworth , Gympie , Tiaro and Maryborough . To the northeast of this city, it flows into the Great Sandy Strait , a sea channel between the Australian east coast and Fraser Island, at River Heads .

The catchment area of ​​the Mary River covers an area of ​​9595 km² and is bounded by the Conondale Range , the Jimma Range and the Burnett Range .

Tributaries with mouth heights

• Little Yabba Creek - 109 m
• Obi Obi Creek - 88 m
• Yabba Creek - 66 m
• Kandanga Creek - 65 m
• Amamoor Creek - 58 m
• Six Mile Creek - 51 m
• Eel Creek - 49 m
• Glastonbury Creek - 42 m
• Wide Bay Creek - 40 m
• Curra Creek - 36 m
• Slaty Creek - 28 m
• Munna Creek - 22 m
• Ooramera Creek - 19 m
• Gutchy Creek - 17 m
• Oaky Creek - 17 m
• Chinaman Creek - 12 m
• Myrtle Creek - 11 m
• Grahams Creek - 10 m
• Tinana Creek - 4 m
• Saltwater Creek - 1 m
• Susan River - 0 m

Traveston Crossing Reservoir

In the wake of the longest drought in 100 years, the Queensland government announced on April 27, 2006 that it was damming part of the Mary River at Traveston Crossing , south of Gympie. In November 2009, however, this project was dropped again because the Australian federal government rejected it.

The plan was to build a reservoir "almost as big as Lake Wivenhoe " by 2011 . The reservoir was supposed to flood fertile farmland, endangered ecosystems of regional importance and small settlements in an area 1.3 times the size of Sydney Harbor . There was considerable objection from the residents concerned and the parliaments of the Mary Valley Shire and the Sunshine Coast Shire also contradicted the plans for many reasons, such as: B. the relocation of the settlements to be flooded, unfavorable influences on the downstream communities and expected environmental damage from the removal of one of the few remaining areas of distribution of the endangered Australian lungfish. More than 20,000 local residents turned to the Queensland Parliament in an official petition to try to prevent the dam. There were further objections that the geomechanics of the proposed location was unsuitable for a dam and that significant leakages (due to the predominantly sandy soil) and evaporation problems were to be expected.

There were also strong international objections to the construction of the dam, as the habitat of various endangered animals would have been destroyed. The Mary River flows into the Great Sandy Strait , where wetlands are of international standing and recognized by the Ramsar Convention. There is also the Fraser Island World Heritage Area , an area that attracts thousands of visitors each year.

history

The river was used by the Aborigines of the local Kabi Kabi - tribe Moocooboola called. The first Europeans called it the Wide Bay River . In 1847, before Queensland became its own colony, the then Governor of New South Wales , Charles Augustus FitzRoy , renamed it Mary River after his wife, Lady Mary Lennox .

In 1867, James Nash discovered gold in the Mary River near Gympie, which started Queensland's first great gold rush.

Floods 2011

The Mary River overflowed its banks during the 2010/2011 floods in Queensland . In some places the water level rose by 20 meters. In Maryborough the water level rose to 8.28 meters, while in Gympie it was 19.3 meters and more than 50 homes and businesses were flooded. The turbulent flow disrupted the natural breeding cycle of some species in the river.

fauna

The endangered Mary River turtle ( Elusor macrurus ) lives in the river. Other aquatic inhabitants are the Australian lungfish ( Neoceratodus forsteri ) and the endangered Mary River cod ( Maccullochella mariensis ). Other important animal species that are considered endangered or sensitive also live by the river, such as the endangered Giant Barred Frog (Frog, Mixohyes iterates ), the Cascade Tree Frog and the Coxen's Fig Parrot (Pagagei, Cyclopsytta diophthalma coxeni ) and the sensitive toothed frog ( Adelotus brevis ), the Honey Blue-eyed Fish , the Richmond Birdwin Butterfly and the Illidge's Ant-blue Butterfly (butterfly).

Web links

Commons : Mary River (Queensland)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Film of a flight over the valley of the Mary River and Kenilworth
• Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee
• Help Save the Australian Lungfish

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Map of Mary River, QLD . Bonzle.com
2. ↑ Water resources - Overview - Queensland - Basin & Surface Water Management Area: Mary River (Qld) . In: Australian Natural Resources Atlas . Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Archived from the original on October 4, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2009. 
3. ^ Qld Govt proposes Mary River dam . In: ABC News . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. April 27, 2006. Retrieved April 27, 2006.
4. ↑ Bishop to visit mega dam site . Retrieved August 14, 2006.
5. ↑ Mayors unite to block dam, find own solution . August 12, 2006. Retrieved October 31, 2006.
6. ↑ Cooloola Shire Council Meeting Minutes (PDF) Accessed October 31, 2006.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Expert raises Mary River dam leakage fears . In: ABC News , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, June 14, 2006. Retrieved June 25, 2006. 
8. ↑ Report to Garrett says dam species will die . In: Brisbane Times . Fairfax Digital. November 28, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
9. ^ Place Names Search . Queensland Government Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Information on the Gympie Cooloola Tourism website ( memento of the original from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ ^{a b} Aimee Volkofsky: Mary River battered by flood waters . In: ABC Wide Bay . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. January 26, 2011. Accessed January 31, 2011.
12. ^ Mary River floodwaters fill Gympie streets . In: ABC News Online . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
13. ↑ Ben Cubby: Peak leaves city severed and submerged . Fairfax Media. January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2011.
14. ^ Mary River turtle . In: Queensland's Vanishing Wildlife . Archived from the original on May 11, 2006. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 18, 2006.