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	Macquarie River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Macquarie River is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales.
		Burrendong Dam is a large dam near Wellington which impounds the waters of the Macquarie River and its tributary the Cudgegong River for flood control and irrigation.
		The Macquarie is a tributary of the Darling River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macquarie_River (144 words)

	NSW SoE 1995 - Catchment Case Studies - Macquarie River Catchment
		The Macquarie River is formed by the joining of the Fish and Campbell rivers near Bathurst.
		The climate of the lower Macquarie River catchment is semi-arid.
		River flow to the marshes is regulated due to dams and weirs on the river.
	www.epa.nsw.gov.au /soe/95/9_3.htm (4111 words)

	Climate Change Scenarios and Managing the Scarce Water Resources of the Macquarie River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Then the effects of the climate and river flow scenarios on the economy and ecology of the region were estimated.
		The High and Low scenarios indicate that, by 2030, average temperatures in the Macquarie Valley may be between 0.5 and 1.6 0C higher than at present, rainfall may be three to ten percent lower and evaporation may be three to ten percent higher.
		These river flow scenarios showed that the mean annual runoff to Burrendong Dam (the main water storage on the Macquarie River) may be reduced by between 12 and 32 percent under the High and Low scenarios, respectively.
	www.greenhouse.gov.au /impacts/publications/macquarieriver.html (1338 words)

	session 13-- instructor's note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rain water is pumped to the tank near the house, river water to the lower one, and the tall one on the left provides water pressure to the house using either rainwater or river water.
		Water is pumped uphill from the river to a 20,000-gallon concrete reservoir in the side yard.
		The river at the Wuuluman is 12 kilometers from the dam wall upstream.
	ruby.fgcu.edu /courses/sstans/81469/s13intro.html (1276 words)

	Lachlan Macquarie
		Lachlan Macquarie was born on the tiny island of Ulva, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland and grew up on the nearby larger island of Mull.
		The colony's first military governor (previous holders of the office had all been navy men), Macquarie was able to draw on his experience as a staff officer in the raising and organisation of colonial revenue-measures in this area included the introduction of coinage (1813) and the establishment of the colony's first bank (1817).
		Macquarie's resignation was accepted in 1821 and he sailed for England in 1822.
	members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/misc/lachlan_macquarie.htm (636 words)

	Central West - Catchment Management Authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Macquarie River is formed by the joining of the Campbells and Fish Rivers, which drain a high plateau area centred near Oberon with a general elevation above sea level of 900 to 1000 metres.
		Downstream of the dam the river continues to flow in a northwest direction through Wellington and Dubbo and is joined by several major tributaries from the east and western parts of the catchment.
		The Macquarie Marshes are located toward the end of the catchment, although the Macquarie River does emerge from the wetlands before being joined by the Castlereagh River and then flowing into the Barwon River near Brewarrina.
	cw.cma.nsw.gov.au /catchment.html (494 words)

	Ramsar Sites Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Macquarie Marshes are one of the largest remaining inland, semi-permanent wetlands in southeast Australia.
		The Macquarie River is a regulated stream and in the past, the marshes did not have an adequate and appropriate water regime, which lead to problems.
		River regulation, combined with the extraction of water for irrigation and other purposes upstream of the site, has reduced the water supply to the wetlands, as well as the frequency, area and duration of flooding.
	www.wetlands.org /RDB/Ramsar_Dir/Australia/AU027D02.htm (1196 words)

	Australian Discovery, edited by Ernest Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The river itself continued, as usual, from fifteen to twenty-five feet deep, the waters which were overflowing the plains being carried thither by a multitude of little streams, which had their origin in the present increased height of the waters above their usual level.
		The river continued undiminished, and presented too important a body of water to allow me to believe that those marshes and low grounds had any material effect in diffusing and absorbing it: its ultimate termination, therefore, must be more consonant to its magnitude.
		The main bed of the river was much contracted, but very deep, the waters spreading to the depth of a foot or eighteen inches over the banks, but all running on the same point of bearing.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /ausdisc/ausdisc2-06.html (1274 words)

	Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve Fire Management Plan
		The Macquarie Marshes is located on the floodplains of the lower Macquarie River of central northern New South Wales, covering an area greater than 150,000 hectares.
		The Macquarie Marshes is located on the lower floodplain of the Macquarie River in New South Wales.
		The development of the Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve Fire Management Plan was heavy influenced by both a perceived changing fire regime threatening values of an internationally significant wetland reserve, and the knowledge and experience of the local community.
	www.csu.edu.au /special/bushfire99/papers/brookhse/other/index2.html (2670 words)

	Walkabout - Warren
		Warren is a very typical and quiet rural town on the Macquarie River with a population of about 2200 people.
		Stockmen camped here in the bend by the river, adjacent the Warren Hole (a natural and permanent waterhole), before crossing over on the gravel bar when the water was sufficiently low.
		Macquarie Park, on the banks of the Macquarie River, off Burton St, is particularly beautiful.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/NSWWarren.shtml (1676 words)

	Lachlan Macquarie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland on 31 January 1762.
		His father, Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan MacQuarrie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, chieftain of Lochbuy in Mull.
		Macquarie returned to England in 1803 to attend to financial matters, but in 1805 he returned to India where he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 73rd Regiment.
	www.holidaymull.org /history-geology/lachlan-macquarie.htm (1019 words)

	CHAPTER V.
		The marsh it had been directed to examine, was traversed on every side, and the rivers it had been ordered to trace, were followed down to their terminations to a distance far beyond where they had ceased to exist as living streams.
		The Macquarie, although it at length ceased to run, kept up the appearance of a river to the very marshes; but the bed of the Castlereagh might have been crossed in many places without being noticed, nor did its channel contain so much water as was to be found on the neighbouring plains.
		I descended this river, and explored the country on its left bank for about eighty miles to the westward, when I found that its general course was somewhat to the southward of west.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/s93t/v1ch5.html (3368 words)

	Welcome to the Virtual Coquun - Hunter River Project Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Some months previous Lieutenant Shortland discovered a very fine river, which it is thought will prove of great advantage to the colony, as, from the survey he then had an opportunity of taking, he thinks vessels from 60 to 250 tons may load there, and be completely landlocked.
		The native name of the river was "Coquon." Shortland discovered the river in September, 1797, when in quest of convicts who had seized the Cumberland - the Government boat for trading to the Hawkesbury.
		The Report, submitted by Paterson upon his return, also stressed that the river flats beyond Green Hills were extremely suitable for agriculture and were well wooded with cedar, Ash and Box timbers of which there was a dearth in the known area of the colony.
	www.newcastle.edu.au /services/library/collections/archives/int/chrp/coquunhunter.html (6185 words)

	GlenroyH2
		Governor Macquarie took a keen interest in the life and progress of the colony.
		Macquarie remained in camp, some of the party rode with the Governor to Mount Blaxland and apparently ascended to the top, “from whence”, he wrote, “we had a fine prospect of the adjacent Hilly Country, and of Wentworth’s and Lawson’s Sugar Loaves in the immediate vicinity of Mount Blaxland”.
		While some of the gentlemen explored Cox’s River downwards, Antill again took a walk upstream. He described that night as mild, “but a high wind made it unpleasant, coming down the vallies in gusts, and driving the fire and smoke about in every direction”.
	www.hartley-nsw.com /GlenroyH4.html (278 words)

	Making forestry pay
		In a pilot project aimed at securing irrigation-quality water, an irrigators’ group in the Macquarie Valley in central western New South Wales has offered a financial incentive to State Forests of New South Wales to establish planted forest on private land in critical recharge areas in the upper reaches of the Macquarie River catchment.
		Salinity problems in the Macquarie catchment are estimated to cost agriculture, business and towns US$20 million per year and also pose a significant threat to the biodiversity of the Macquarie marshes (Powell, 2001).
		The trees, comprising the local species Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum), Eucalyptus crebra (narrow-leaved ironbark) and Corymbia maculata (spotted gum), were planted in the spring of 2001 on two blocks of 50 ha each in the Upper Macquarie catchment (see Map).
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/Y4744E/y4744e10.htm (1229 words)

	Rivers
		This river is very productive and the white caddis moth is about now and there are plenty of smaller trout in there that will give the angler a great deal of pleasure the catch.
		The Macquarie River is flanked by large open grassy farmland.
		The river can become a raging torent when flood waters spill over, but is usually nothing more than a small stream with most of the beds exposed and casting in the pools and shallowrapids is quite easy.
	www.southcom.com.au /~trout/rivers.html (845 words)

	Expedition down the Macquarie river, and into the western interior in 1828 and 1829
		It was observed both on the Macquarie river and the Morumbidgee, that the casuarinae ceased at a particular point.
		The very floods which swell the rivers to overflowing, are followed by the most beneficent effects; and, rude and violent as the means are by which she accomplishes her purpose, they form, no doubt, a part of that process by which she preserves the balance of good and evil.
		Oxley directed his attention to the former river, and continued to follow its windings, until it appeared that its waters were lost in successive marshes and it ceased to be a river.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /s/s93t/v1ch0.html (10616 words)

	The Observatory About Port Macquarie
		Situated at the mouth of the Hastings River, Port Macquarie has one of the most enjoyable climates in Australia, with an average summer temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, dropping to an average 19 degrees in winter.
		The large number of shipwrecks in the Hastings River and the river bar bear testament to the high volume of trade from the region.
		Housed in a heritage building, the Port Macquarie Historical Society is open 7 days a week, and displays over 20,000 items from the penal settlement and early settlers, along with Aboriginal artefacts from the Native tribes and memorabilia from the Hastings and surrounding districts.
	www.observatory.net.au /aboutpm.htm (485 words)

	John Oxley - easier version
		Oxley came to the conclusion that "the interior of this vast country is a marsh and uninhabitable".
		He did not know that he was a few days march from the Murrumbidgee River which would have led him to large areas of good land.
		In 1818, he led another expedition to trace the course of the Macquarie River, but again was blocked by marshes.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/oxley/oxley_-_easier.htm (510 words)

	DLWC Media Release - Macquarie River algal warning extended to Warren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		People using the river should avoid water where the algae can be seen, or water that has a strong odour.
		Water drawn from the river for the residents of Wellington, Geurie, Dubbo and Nyngan is being treated by local Councils to remove both the algae and any toxins that may be produced by the algae.
		Householders along the Macquarie River downstream of Burrendong and associated distributary streams and those reliant of river schemes are advised to seek advice from their local council and to secure safe water supplies for drinking and domestic purposes.
	www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au /mediarel/cw20030214_1853.html (514 words)

	NCC - Salinity Control Credits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		State Forests NSW and Macquarie River Food and Fibre have recently launched a pilot program to trial "salinity control credits" in the development of a response to dryland salinity in the Macquarie catchment of the Murray Darling Basin.
		The proponents of the Macquarie pilot hope to use this scheme to refine the measurement of transpiration rates, and its correlation with downstream salinity reduction benefits, and promote the development of a broader salinity trade.
		At present the Macquarie scheme is conceptually different to that of carbon credits: investors are purchasing credits to prevent worsening of salinity pollution in the long term and to promote restoration, rather than using credits to offset the continued production of pollution.
	www.nccnsw.org.au /veg/reference/salt.credits.html (1339 words)

	News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The project is a community driven initiative of Macquarie Rivercare Inc, funded for two years by the National Heritage Trust in an effort to deter riverbank degradation and weed infestation in the Macquarie and Campbell catchments.
		With the CSIRO report predicting that stream flows in the Macquarie River catchment will fall by up to 20 per cent by 2030, issues of restoration in the catchment become all the more important.
		Willows are seen as a big problem because of their high water intake and the problems they cause for landholders adjoining rivers, but there needs to be greater emphasis on replacing them with something better.
	wwwdb.csu.edu.au /division/marketing/ne/newsm344.htm (389 words)

	King River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The aim was to document the environmental impact the mining operation has had on the King River and Macquarie Harbour, propose remediation strategies, and to investigate the relationship between power station operation and downstream water quality.
		When the power station is not operating, the acid Queen River water dominates the chemistry of the lower King River, and dissolved copper concentrations of up to 10 mg/L have been detected (1000 times the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council guideline).
		Also such acid drainage treatment is likely to result in partial to complete recovery of native fish recruitment in tributaries of the lower King River and is highly unlikely to cause mortality or growth inhibition of rainbow trout in the sea cages in north-western Macquarie Harbour.
	www.rpdc.tas.gov.au /soer/casestudy/16/index.php (729 words)

	Explorers - Exploration of South Eastern Australia - Australian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The expedition crossed the Nepean River at Emu Ford and went along the ridge that divides the Grose and Cox's rivers and reached Mount Victoria.
		Governor Macquarie went on tour over the Blue Mountains to the Bathurst Plains, leaving Sydney on April 15, 1815, and reaching the plains on May 4.
		The Nambucca River seems to have been discovered by a convict, William Smith, in July 1817.
	www.eurekatimes.net /1813-1827_Exploring_South_East_Australia.htm (1867 words)

	John Oxley
		As before on the Lachlan River he was blocked by swamps and marshes.
		Because two of the rivers that he had explored had become blocked with swampy, marshy land, Oxley believed that they might have flowed into a great sea in the middle of Australia.
		He was shown the mouth of a large river and guided upstream by some escaped convicts who had been shipwrecked earlier and who had been living with local Aborigines.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/oxley.htm (328 words)

	John Oxley
		John Oxley (1785?-1828) was a naval officer, surveyor and explorer and was born in England.
		Exploring the Macquarie River: The next year, in 1818, Oxley set off from Bathurst with 15 men to follow the Macquarie River.
		He spent 5 days sailing up the Brisbane River and was very impressed by the rich soil and timber.
	www.davidreilly.com /australian_explorers/oxley/john1.htm (611 words)

	Mid-North Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Laurieton is a pretty little town squeezed between the North Brother mountain and the Camden Haven River.
		Port Macquarie is a major tourist centre, and I found it to be one of the most interesting and pleasant places of the whole trip.
		I was impressed with the main street area of the town, with the tree-lined streets.
	www.2pi.info /travel/qld05/MidNorthCoast.html (509 words)

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		Flooding in the Marshes has declined over the last 50 years and the use of irrigation has increased considerably in the Macquarie Valley since the construction of Burrendong Dam on the Macquarie River in 1967.
		The allocation of Macquarie Valley water to irrigation and away from the Macquarie Marshes has resulted from a fundamental imbalance in the market for water.
		The objective of the valuation exercise was the estimation of the non-use environmental values provided by the Macquarie Marshes.
	www.biodiv.org /programmes/socio-eco/incentives/case-study.aspx?id=6539 (182 words)

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