We briefly stayed at Cowra whilst on a small road trip to Canberra and Melbourne in August. I wanted to have a look at the Lachlan River as it is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment and hence a part of the Murray-Darling Basin.
The river, which starts near near Goulburn in the Great Dividing Range, is impounded by the headwater Wyangala Dam. The river is highly regulated with weirs and damed lakes for storage (eg., Lake Cargelligo and Lake Brewster) and it ends in the extensive wetlands of the Great Cumbung swamp With floods the Lachlan joins the Murrumbidgee River
The Wyangala Dam creates a storage of water known as Lake Wyangala. We didn’t bother paying the fee to enter and look around the extensive dam area as it was raining at the time.
Lake Wyangala. looked reasonably full but the flow of the Lachlan River as it passed through Cowra appeared to be quite low–presumably because of the modified flows from the dams and for irrigation.
Nourishing Terrains 
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