COOPER'S, CREEK.

Oxford Observer, Volume V, Issue V, 9 June 1894, Page 3

COOPER'S, CREEK.

Sir,— Last week you invited corres.ponden.ce.on the {i Coopers creek water race " I will how 1 try and ihdwthafit" is inadvisable, to take water from that creek. It is well known that as the hills become cleared ot bush, the water es- | capes more rapidly and therefore immediately after a rainfall, there is a flood, but all signs of which disappear m almost less than twenty -four hours, | when the river recedes to its normal | quantity. Year by year the quantity of water m the creek is becoming less ; and if any were taken out for water-race purposes, the quantity of water m the race and creek would be useless for any purpose and the money expended would be wasted. There would be a race, and no water when most needed It is reported that when Messrs Webster and O'Halloran visited the creek, the stream was fourteen feet wide and six ; inches deep. . Take half the water out and the stream will m the first place be about twelve feet wide and three inches deep; but as evaporation m the heat of summer would be very rapid, by the heat of the sun on the water, and also on the shingle, which would accelerate evaporation considerably ; the result woulc be no water. Not a thousand miles from Oxford there i<s a watei" race, taken from a better source than Coopers creek, and yet during the dry summer two or three years ago it went dry when most rneeded. This experience should show the folly of forming a water-race from any but from a perennial and abundant supply. I am &c. Tom Tulliver.