Has anyone tried paddling at hinze dam since they opened it. A couple of us are doing a paddle 530 tomorrow morning from the dam wall we will be leaving seems the best spot to paddle with the amount of crap in the rivers and sh-tty ocean conditions

Mate you could paddle around my house atm

laceys lane said...

that is a bloody good idea

well drag your paddlein crew out there laceys

when you say since they opened it, do you mean finish stage 3/raise dam wall? I thought they werent going to allow on water activites untill 80% full or something like that??? I could be wrong though.....btw keep you head out of the water

husq2100 said...

when you say since they opened it, do you mean finish stage 3/raise dam wall? I thought they werent going to allow on water activites untill 80% full or something like that??? I could be wrong though.....btw keep you head out of the water

Works were completed last year and the recreational areas officially reopened to the public on 19 December 2011.
Looks like its not at 80% capacity yet, but it was 69.5% this morning and considering the water level jumped by 2m during the day today I think it will be somewhere around 75-80% by now.
Good thing they finished raising the wall last year or we would have a whole lot more water causing flooding in the lower Nerang River right now.

are you saying the water level jumped 2 meters in the dam today??? there was 8% increase from Wed-thurs and 2% from thurs-fri so will be interested to see what its upto tomorrow?

hilly said...

Hinze DAME I was expecting

Not sure how you paddle that one Hilly