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The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
Menindee Slogan Bus:
The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
The Voortrekker Monument is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. This massive granite structure is prominently located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
On 8 July 2011 the Voortrekker Monument, designed by the architect Gerard Moerdijk, was declared a National Heritage Site by the South African Heritage Resource Agency.
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The Library of Congress Helen Keller
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Title
Keller, Helen
Contributor Names
C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer
Created / Published
[between January 1891 and January 1894]
Headings
Glass negatives.
Portrait photographs.
Genre
Portrait photographs
Glass negatives
Notes
- Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative.
- Date from photographer's logbook.
- Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975.
- General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bellcm
- Temp note: Batch 10.
Medium
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-B5- 39966 [P&P]
Source Collection
C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
bellcm 04511 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.04511
Library of Congress Control Number
2016691950
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-bellcm-04511 (digital file from original)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions on publication.
Language
English
Online Format
image
Description
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
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The Library of Congress A Greyhound bus trip 1943
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Title
A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals
Contributor Names
Bubley, Esther, photographer
Created / Published
1943 Sept.
Subject Headings
- United States--Southern States
Headings
Nitrate negatives.
Genre
Nitrate negatives
Notes
- Annotation on original negative jacket.
- This image in a jacket marked "Killed"
- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
- Temp. note: owibatch5
- Film copy on SIS roll 15, frame 2155.
Medium
1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
LC-USW3- 037918-E [P&P]
Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
fsa 8d33345 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d33345
Library of Congress Control Number
2017862089
Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-fsa-8d33345 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USW3-037918-E (b&w film nitrate neg.)
Rights Advisory
No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html
Online Format
image
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A view of railway marshalling yards in the East False Creek Flats near downtown Vancouver.
Besides railroad use the area has educational venues, office space, restaurants, a craft brewery, art galleries, car dealerships, storage lockers, Sky-train tracks and the Rocky Mountaineer Rail-tours terminal (top left corner).
False Creek Flats is the heart of Vancouver as it is here where the transcontinental railway finally found its terminus.
FLATS HISTORY
An area long identified by transportation and commerce, the present day False Creek Flats was a muddy tidal flat on the eastern end of False Creek until the early 20th century.
A rich variation of natural features, combined with various streams cutting down the southern boundary of the area, the flats provided diverse and abundant resources for the First Nations people of the area, including some of the largest salmon and trout runs in Vancouver.
As the industrial activity of Vancouver’s resource economy filled in the downtown peninsula and the shores of False Creek, the City sought to accommodate further economic expansion and additional rail terminals.
In 1913, at the urging of a number of rail companies, the City took a plebiscite to the people of Vancouver requesting support to fill the eastern end of False Creek.
Following a favourable vote, the filing in of the Flats began in 1915 utilizing a variety of materials from nearby districts including land fill from development projects, scrap lumber and bricks from surrounding mills, general industrial waste and fill removed from the Grandview Cut that brought the railway tracks down from Grandview district.
By 1917, the Flats were completely filed in and by 1919 both the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and Canadian Northern Railway (later to merge with others to become the federally owned Canadian National) had established their new western terminals in the False Creek Flats laying the foundation for the area’s industrial future.
The area’s post-fill history is intrinsically tied to that of the railway, ensuring the area to be well served by rail (including the British Columbia Electric Railway, Canadian National Railway, Great Northern Railway and later, SkyTrain and Rockymountaineer Passenger service.
As the importance of passenger and freight rail declined, cars and trucks became the more ubiquitous transportation modes in the city, converting the once rail-dominated composition of the Eastern Core into a mix of railway and roadway-based facilities.
The present landscape features an eclectic mix of residential, commercial and industrial zones; educational and institutional facilities; warehouses and artist spaces.
Despite the area’s newfound diversity, rail and transit remain as the literal and gurative centre of the area.
The False Creek Flats currently has four main rail yards, three of which are primarily used for goods movement for the Port of Vancouver operations on the south shore of Burrard Inlet.
The rail yards include;
CN Main Yard
This yard has traditionally been used as a support yard for container traffic. Rocky Mountaineer Tours also uses Main Yard for arrival and departure from its station.
BNSF Yard
This yard generally supports barge operations at Burrard inlet (top right in the photo).
Glen Yard
This is a smaller yard used primarily for staging grain and container cars. This one is to the top left out of the photo.
VIA Rail and Amtrak use the main station off Main Street for passenger arrival and departures (off to the left of this shot).
The Fall 2010 issue of Resource Magazine (hitting newsstands now) contains a 3 page interview with me. Their format has me talking about a single image and what was involved with me shooting it. The piece also covers a few questions I've never been asked before, so make sure you follow this link to the PDF of the article. Apologies for the heavy-handed cloning (and flipping) of the image, I had nothing to do with that.
The copious records of that invaluable resource, Bus Lists on the Web, do not comprehend this vehicle. Luckily, considering that it was a vehicle not much to my taste, I kept the print and recorded the details on the reverse. The coach was a brand new Duple Dominant-bodied Ford R1114 photographed on Saturday 29th July 1978 at "The Glen", on Durdham Down, Bristol. Off right, built into the side of a disused quarry, had been a discotèque called Tiffany's which, in the recent past, had loomed large in the courtship rituals (my own excepted) of young Bristolians. In the bus company canteen one day I heard a young conductor remark that he was "going up Tiffany's" that evening. An inspector within earshot turned and asked, "Is that that knocking-shop up the top of Blackboy Hill?" ...and it is by that sobriquet that I have since tended to think of the establishment. By the time of the photograph then, the Knocking-Shop Up the Top of Blackboy Hill had ceased to operate as a discotèque and must have included among its activities the provision of refreshment facilities for coach parties.
I didn't know much about this side of the coach business. Coaches bearing the rather catchy Smiths Happiway-Spencers name were a familiar sight in Bristol, no doubt passing through on their way to West Country destinations. The firm's new vehicles were reported as registered to Smith, Wigan. Where the Spencer name came into it I don't know; and what had either Smith or Spencer to do with the Blundell Group? I could never generate much interest in lightweight coaches such as Fords and Bedfords and accordingly never devoted much effort to the solution of these mysteries. I discover from an internet search that the firm not only continues to prosper, but some years ago absorbed the Wallace Arnold business.
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Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof (1866-1924) was a Dutch painter and decorative artist from the Arts and Crafts Movement, which held great importance in the area of Dutch Art Nouveau. Dijsselhof was an all-round artist who created furniture, bookbindings, textiles, embroidery patterns and more.
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Looking West from Westminster Bridge this powerful little tug looks to be hauling waste containers against the tide.
Using Hr Software you get Benefits to your Business. Human Resourse Software helps in managing the personnel data but also takes care of the leave and attendance management, payroll, and other HR functions. Due to these features, most of the companies go for a good quality and reliable HRM software. Eilisys software is that one size fits all. It is created in such a way that it easily adapts to all needs of the company or organization.
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I was fortunate enough to be interviewed recently about my (bizarre) start in photography, my life before photography, how my book deal happened, and how social media helped build my career.
Excerpt from the interview (full interview: Full Interview Here )
Getting started, humble beginnings...
Dave: So I'm curious, and I'm sure our readers would like to know too, what was the path that took you where you are now? How did you get started, and that sort of thing? I think we've got a lot of readers who are passionate about photography, but suspect a lot of them say, 'Well, so what do I do next? How do I take the next step?' How did it all start for you?
Vivienne: I have a past checkered with a lot of struggles. I moved out on my own when I was 18. Basically, my parents…it was a difficult relationship, and my parents moved away from New York City. My parents didn't want me going with them, so I stayed in New York City and spent almost a decade working seven days a week, three or four jobs.
Dave: Wow.
Vivienne: It was just to kind of keep myself in New York City. Then, at some point, I realized that I really wanted, for myself, to go back to school and finish a degree that I had started in my late teens, but kind of abandoned because I had to work. So I put myself back in school right around when I turned 30, and it was super stressful to quit working, take out loans, go back to school.
Dave: Wow, no kidding - that's a pretty scary move.
Vivienne: So to cope with that stress, I would walk around a lot. I was on the Lower East Side, and I would walk around Manhattan just aimlessly. I really loved thinking a lot about what I was seeing. I've always written from the time when I was little, so I have a very vivid imagination, and I decided to buy a camera off of Amazon. At the time, because I was so broke (it was like 2009), I couldn't afford a smartphone;...
Continue reading the full (very LONG interview) here:
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Hope you enjoy!
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Curious about the book? Tons of information about my New York photography book with sample pages (including where to order and what stores are carrying it):
NY Through The Lens: A New York Coffee Table Book
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Stroti's resourses by Stroti and Tamira
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Phitt's Morrowind Style Lanterns.
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The new home of the Resource Center of Dallas. The architect of the building is by James Langford, a student of the world Renowned architect I.M. Pei.
Full-size login page of Icon Resource 2, which is coming in late February / March this year.
Much love went into the design, and this particular page alone had well over a hundred iterations.
More at the blog post.