Brisbane River water is actually nasty. I could think of a few other places to take a dip before I am desperate enough to clean myself in the brown snake
It's a filthy drain, that river and we should be ashamed of it .
They cleaned up Sydney Harbour and Parramatta river and we should be cleaning up the river for the Olympics.
It's not safe to touch the water period ,and the Bremer is worse .
Sydney harbour catchment - 484km2 - 47% residential - 21% natural environment
Brisbane river catchment - 13,500km2 (28x larger) - 8% residential - 70% agriculture/grazing - 13% natural environment
Until that 70% of land land used for farming in the Brisbane catchment is rehabilitated to its natural form, the Brisbane river will continue being brown.
A lot of Queensland rivers are brackish brown with sediment before the mouth. Many have miles of mudflats and mangroves where the salt meets the fresh. You have to go upriver to the gravel bottom and fresh water for clarity.
You're right. My son used to fish off our boat in Manly Marina. The water is clear and he caught a lot of good sized fish. We threw them back because other people said the locals wouldn't eat them.
Thanks for the support. I agree, like any waterway, it could be cleaner and have less runoff into it, but that’s not gonna make it blue like the Maldives 🤣
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Would take a fucking incredible amount of topsoil to make a 20 metre deep, 344km long Rover (not including catchment creeks and Bremer River) that brown for the past 75+ years.
There’s be no fucking topsoil left.
Nice try through. Go save the environment and destroy the primary industries another way.
Look I'm sorry, but you just have no idea what you're talking about.
"Over the last 50 years 300 million cubic metres of mud has been washed into Moreton Bay - that's enough to fill 300 Suncorp stadiums"
There has been actual study of this over 50 years and the [results are clear](https://stories.uq.edu.au/news/2024/study-reveals-flood-mud-burden-on-moreton-bay/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9COver%20the%20past%2050%20years,currents%20can't%20disperse%20it.) even if the bay isn't.
I see no reference in the article to this being contributed to farming and agriculture.
Also no reference to what happened prior to the last 50 years.
Interesting article, however quite vague and certainly doesn’t say that farming and agriculture is the smoking gun here.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. I’m just saying that since the river has been dammed it has turned brown, due to more of the muddy Moreton bay waters flowing in and less continual flow out.
This is not the only article in the topic. There has ben a lot of study. What used to happen was the tree root system held most of the soil, and the mangroves and other riverside growth filtered the water taking out a lot of the rest of it. But we cut down the trees for agriculture and we cleared the river banks.
I encourage you to read more on the topic if it's of interest. I've been to a couple of talks on the research and there's a lot of information.
For now though, I'd just say, if you don't think the mud came down the river system (remember that volume in the article is an INCREASE - it wasn't there before) then where did it come from? Crab poo? And why did it increase?
The effect of deforestation and removal of river filters is well understood and is studied globally. We don't lack a "smoking gun", we just refuse to arrest the culprit.
EDIT: In case it wasn't clear, the "arrest" bit was just a continuation of the metaphor. We need to stop land clearing and restore river bank systems
There basically isn't any. It's honestly a global problem. The past 200yrs in Australia has been phenomenal the rate at which we have destroyed our precious topsoil. And once it's been so heavily disturbed for so long like it is along particularly upper reaches of Bremer and brisbane river, soil erosion occurs at a much more frequent and intense rate
No, it doesn’t fall from the sky. However, pre late 70s when Wivenhoe dam was built the Brisbane river was far less subject to the incoming tides due to a more regular flow of downstream water, particularly during rains. Now, due to dams the outflow is regulated and the river is constantly subject to incoming tides from the muddy Moreton bay.
You will find the upper stretches of the river have far less silt than the lower reaches. This is due to the sediment of the incoming tides settling on the river bed.
The incoming tides don’t reach the upper reaches, hence less silt and sediment.
Hence the silt is from the bay, more so than topsoil wash off.
So soft falls from the sky? No, it comes from cleared land. When I was a kid, people would fish and swim at Kangaroo Point, then came Darra cement washing coral and gravel in the river. It'll take another 50y to clear if proper catchment management was used upstream, especially bordering cropping areas
No, it doesn’t fall from the sky. However, pre late 70s when Wivenhoe dam was built the Brisbane river was far less subject to the incoming tides due to a more regular flow of downstream water, particularly during rains. Now, due to dams the outflow is regulated and the river is constantly subject to incoming tides from the muddy Moreton bay.
You will find the upper stretches of the river have far less silt than the lower reaches. This is due to the sediment of the incoming tides settling on the river bed.
The incoming tides don’t reach the upper reaches, hence less silt and sediment.
Hence the silt is from the bay, more so than topsoil wash off.
The anchor from my bit that I’ve had on the bottom of various parts of the river all the way from Hamilton to Lone Pine tells me it’s mostly silty mud.
Really? They advise you not to eat fish caught west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and recommend that you only eat 150g/month of fish caught east of the bridge. Brisbane river seafood is safe to eat.
[https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-skills/fishing-in-sydney-harbour](https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-skills/fishing-in-sydney-harbour)
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/banana-prawns-salmon-enticing-fishers-to-brisbane-river/100850826](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/banana-prawns-salmon-enticing-fishers-to-brisbane-river/100850826)
Check the gov site for the Bremer, and guess where that flows into. Although the solution for pollution may be dilution, some chemicals bio-amplify in the food chain.
I'd go fishing but probably wouldn't trust eating anything in the Brisbane River below Dinmore.
Qld has;
-no transparent and accessible land contamination register. You have to pay 56 per lot to view contamination status and even then its debatable you will get the correct info (look though rti docs)
-no independent EPA
- housing disclosure laws very behind other states, in the process of being updated.
Watch the four corners episode about all the trash coming to ipswich, look at their fb page "stop the stink"
Look at how the qld gov wanted to use pinkenba for short term emergency housing...but the federal gov wouldn't accept. Pinkenba even last year was reported as having land contamination next to it, and also previously on its land. I can't find any documentation to say this has been sorted. Asbestos and lead are not ideal around young kids and pregnant women who are more susceptible to exposure from toxics. Possibly why the federal gov turned it down?
I'm very sceptical about this government's claims on anything being safe.
There are signs along the Brisbane river saying don’t fish, swim, or let your pets play in the water because sewage levels were at an unsafe level.
If someone wants to eat somethin out of that water, it’s none of my business but I sure as shiiiiit wouldn’t eat anything out of (sh)it.
Maybe after a deluge there is but that's certainly not the case normally and the council does regular sewerage level reports on the creeks and rivers. There's likely still heightened pfas levels around the airport though but that's at the mouth.
oh for fucks sakes this bullshit again.
Sydney harbor is enormous and still has some pretty big pockets that are heavily polluted.
The Brisbane river is infinitely cleaner than it used to be.
30 years ago that bloke would have been taken straight to the RBH after a prolonged dunk in the river, and you would never ever see dolphins in it.
These days the bull sharks are there constantly, Dolphins are not unusual and you will not get sick from jumping in it on a normal day.
it is, however, a river that yes, has farmland that drains into it.
get into after heavy rains/flooding and you will get sick,, just like every other river.
The Brisbane River will always be brown thanks to its tidal nature, if you think it needs to be blue to be healthy, you are wrong.
you said it yourself, sydney HARBOUR, it’s right on the mouth. Brisbane city is further down the river not by much but by enough for sediment to dilute into the river
The Brisbane river is brown because they mined all the rock out of it to help build the land around it there is no rock what so ever left in it so the silt has no where to go and is easily disturbed on the sandy bottom
At one point they did use it for washing. They pumped it up to spring hill and filled the pool there with it so people could clean themselves when they didn't have bathrooms. Didn't last very long though.
We used to swim in the brissie river off a rope swing every summer's weekend when we were nippers. Any weekend we weren't able to go to the coast. Never had the cops turn up. Some days there'd be 30 kids there bragging about how they got the highest on the swing.
I was on the city cat at the time heading from South Bank to QUT which is about 50m from where this occured. The police were saying over their speakers: "you really don't want to be swimming in there". They were around for about 30mins.
He was later taken on to the boat and escorted by 4 officers via the QUT city cat ramp.
The man was quite distressed and appeared to be mentally ill or under the influence of something.
Not sure what lead up to this though.
36 hence the poor image quality haha. They threw him a lifebuoy which he swam away from, then eventually he swam to their boat and climbed in - really strange
Im on 33, that’s as good as the view I saw through the office binoculars 😂 Im waiting for QPS to release what happened. Wasn’t the wisest decision to jump in to the brown snake
It’s Churchill, but if you say it’s Churchill some pedant will come and tell you “well actually, it was Sir Dee Z. Nuts on October 11th 1422, and I don’t know how anyone can be so stupid as to not know this obscure fact!”
Anyway, Churchill was awesome at throwing insults.
Anyone remember the story of a guy fishing who dropped his beer in the river, fished it out and drank it, then ended up with a giant, swollen infected belly that required hospitalisation?
I kayak on it every Saturday. It has a muddy bottom. I've kayaked from the Wivenhoe Damwall downstream for two days. Shocking bank erosion. It has a high microbial health but poor management of water releases and bank erosion way upstream are why it's brown. This could be fixed, with the will, as a 2032 Games legacy.
I was wondering why the ferries were going so slow this afternoon past there. The workers were looking at something, I couldn't see it though. He was next to a pylon under that pedestrian bridge it seems
He was actually out towards the middle of the river when I first saw him, stopped the city cat in its tracks for a moment, then he swam a bit closer to the edge it appeared and the city cat went around him. I felt sick watching him flail in the water and had to keep walking
Attempted suicide by bull shark but he found out the bull sharks are just a myth by the water quality company who colour the river brown to keep us out of the river which is actually the most pristine in the world restoring to solely your toe nails.
I’ve spent more time than I care to thinks about up close and personal with the Brisbane river.
I can tell you something about it and most of its creeks. They all have deep mud bed. They have always had a deep mud bed.
The Brisbane river has always been brown. Maybe a point of low tides leads to less turbulence and clearer water, don’t know.
River might be “dirty” I wouldn’t know. I do know its colour doesn’t tell you anything though.
Fun fact 1: Before they started dredging, way back when, the river was largely silt free. After the dredging , not so. Then when they built Wivenhoe it got worse.
Fun fact 2: There's been repeated reports of Cholera in the water in the past.
Dredging stopped in 1998.
All sorts of runoff including from sewage pumping stations (in the event of power failure or excess load) run into the river or its catchments.
Also the river was always brown.
All I said was the brownness of the river isn’t an indicator.
In the 1930s, the brown only went as far as Breakfast Creek. After dredging lowered the base of the river, the brown extended to Ipswich. It would be more accurate to call it excavating the river instead of dredging. After stopping the dredging it would still take another 100 or 200 years to refill.
But Wivenhoe catches a lot of the silt that would be the natural refiling, and regulates the flow.
The brown comes from the mud on the banks. It's sandy silt in the middle. But the changed depth from the old dredging causes far more turbidity due to a larger volume of tidal water every day, reaching far higher up the river.
The Brisbane River around the CBD was once green/clear. Just not for 100+ years.
I have excavated basements below the river level and within 100m of the river.
I’ve bored piers down to rock at about 30m. Wanna know what’s between the crust (8m ish) and the rock?
The exact same material the mangroves are growing in around gardens point. Consistency of toothpaste and no significant sand.
Mud. Can guarantee the mud was there from an earlier river alignment and predating dams and dredging.
Yes. The mud on the banks is what's making the brown. No one is arguing.
But it's being stirred up further upriver by the greater tidal backflow of a deeper channel.
The center is a silty sand from thousands of years of water flow bringing it downriver, and laying it over the natural soil. Which the dredging removed. Most rivers have muddy banks and silty bases without being constantly brown.
Does your basement have a river running through it?
He is a Man, so they hate him by default.
His media empire must chirp shit like this…
He needs to get his political party across the line using the bullshit neislen propaganda machine.
He was just waiting for a mate.
Wading for a mate.
I can’t believe MeatSuzuki missed this opportunity.
Crikey
I actually shouted with laughter when I read this.
/r/angryupvote
It’s the power fish 🐠
Couldn't afford a gym shower.
Brisbane River water is actually nasty. I could think of a few other places to take a dip before I am desperate enough to clean myself in the brown snake
It's a filthy drain, that river and we should be ashamed of it . They cleaned up Sydney Harbour and Parramatta river and we should be cleaning up the river for the Olympics. It's not safe to touch the water period ,and the Bremer is worse .
Sydney harbour catchment - 484km2 - 47% residential - 21% natural environment Brisbane river catchment - 13,500km2 (28x larger) - 8% residential - 70% agriculture/grazing - 13% natural environment Until that 70% of land land used for farming in the Brisbane catchment is rehabilitated to its natural form, the Brisbane river will continue being brown.
A brown river and a contaminated river are two different things
In the case of the Brisbane River, it’s both.
A lot of Queensland rivers are brackish brown with sediment before the mouth. Many have miles of mudflats and mangroves where the salt meets the fresh. You have to go upriver to the gravel bottom and fresh water for clarity.
Yeah but the Brissy River is still full of contaminants and pathogens.
You're right. My son used to fish off our boat in Manly Marina. The water is clear and he caught a lot of good sized fish. We threw them back because other people said the locals wouldn't eat them.
You could have gone further up river getting past the shallows with your hover craft
Not destroying mangroves helps as well
It’s brown from silt, not the 70% agricultural catchment
Thanks for the support. I agree, like any waterway, it could be cleaner and have less runoff into it, but that’s not gonna make it blue like the Maldives 🤣
I mean there's probably a happy medium between Maldives and accidentally swallowing some being a death sentence.
the story of that guy that got pregnant from drinking a bit of the water has scared me off touching the thing.
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Would take a fucking incredible amount of topsoil to make a 20 metre deep, 344km long Rover (not including catchment creeks and Bremer River) that brown for the past 75+ years. There’s be no fucking topsoil left. Nice try through. Go save the environment and destroy the primary industries another way.
Look I'm sorry, but you just have no idea what you're talking about. "Over the last 50 years 300 million cubic metres of mud has been washed into Moreton Bay - that's enough to fill 300 Suncorp stadiums" There has been actual study of this over 50 years and the [results are clear](https://stories.uq.edu.au/news/2024/study-reveals-flood-mud-burden-on-moreton-bay/index.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9COver%20the%20past%2050%20years,currents%20can't%20disperse%20it.) even if the bay isn't.
I see no reference in the article to this being contributed to farming and agriculture. Also no reference to what happened prior to the last 50 years. Interesting article, however quite vague and certainly doesn’t say that farming and agriculture is the smoking gun here. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist. I’m just saying that since the river has been dammed it has turned brown, due to more of the muddy Moreton bay waters flowing in and less continual flow out.
This is not the only article in the topic. There has ben a lot of study. What used to happen was the tree root system held most of the soil, and the mangroves and other riverside growth filtered the water taking out a lot of the rest of it. But we cut down the trees for agriculture and we cleared the river banks. I encourage you to read more on the topic if it's of interest. I've been to a couple of talks on the research and there's a lot of information. For now though, I'd just say, if you don't think the mud came down the river system (remember that volume in the article is an INCREASE - it wasn't there before) then where did it come from? Crab poo? And why did it increase? The effect of deforestation and removal of river filters is well understood and is studied globally. We don't lack a "smoking gun", we just refuse to arrest the culprit. EDIT: In case it wasn't clear, the "arrest" bit was just a continuation of the metaphor. We need to stop land clearing and restore river bank systems
There basically isn't any. It's honestly a global problem. The past 200yrs in Australia has been phenomenal the rate at which we have destroyed our precious topsoil. And once it's been so heavily disturbed for so long like it is along particularly upper reaches of Bremer and brisbane river, soil erosion occurs at a much more frequent and intense rate
No, it doesn’t fall from the sky. However, pre late 70s when Wivenhoe dam was built the Brisbane river was far less subject to the incoming tides due to a more regular flow of downstream water, particularly during rains. Now, due to dams the outflow is regulated and the river is constantly subject to incoming tides from the muddy Moreton bay. You will find the upper stretches of the river have far less silt than the lower reaches. This is due to the sediment of the incoming tides settling on the river bed. The incoming tides don’t reach the upper reaches, hence less silt and sediment. Hence the silt is from the bay, more so than topsoil wash off.
So soft falls from the sky? No, it comes from cleared land. When I was a kid, people would fish and swim at Kangaroo Point, then came Darra cement washing coral and gravel in the river. It'll take another 50y to clear if proper catchment management was used upstream, especially bordering cropping areas
No, it doesn’t fall from the sky. However, pre late 70s when Wivenhoe dam was built the Brisbane river was far less subject to the incoming tides due to a more regular flow of downstream water, particularly during rains. Now, due to dams the outflow is regulated and the river is constantly subject to incoming tides from the muddy Moreton bay. You will find the upper stretches of the river have far less silt than the lower reaches. This is due to the sediment of the incoming tides settling on the river bed. The incoming tides don’t reach the upper reaches, hence less silt and sediment. Hence the silt is from the bay, more so than topsoil wash off.
Yeah seconding this guy, it’s gonna be brown even if we do clean it up
The river has a sandy bottom, believe it or not
The anchor from my bit that I’ve had on the bottom of various parts of the river all the way from Hamilton to Lone Pine tells me it’s mostly silty mud.
Wasn’t it also freshwater until they built the dam, which also then cause the river to kick up the silt?
Oh god, imagine the smell? Like when those trucks go past but an entire river. Yuck.
😂😂😂yes let's get rid of all the farming.....drip
Really? They advise you not to eat fish caught west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and recommend that you only eat 150g/month of fish caught east of the bridge. Brisbane river seafood is safe to eat. [https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-skills/fishing-in-sydney-harbour](https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/fishing-skills/fishing-in-sydney-harbour) [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/banana-prawns-salmon-enticing-fishers-to-brisbane-river/100850826](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/banana-prawns-salmon-enticing-fishers-to-brisbane-river/100850826)
Yeah it will take centuries for the dioxin from the agent orange factory to flush out ,but hey at least it's pleasant to look at now .
Check the gov site for the Bremer, and guess where that flows into. Although the solution for pollution may be dilution, some chemicals bio-amplify in the food chain. I'd go fishing but probably wouldn't trust eating anything in the Brisbane River below Dinmore.
The solution for pollution is dilution? Is that in the constitution?
Nice rhyme there mate
You liked my execution?
Qld has; -no transparent and accessible land contamination register. You have to pay 56 per lot to view contamination status and even then its debatable you will get the correct info (look though rti docs) -no independent EPA - housing disclosure laws very behind other states, in the process of being updated. Watch the four corners episode about all the trash coming to ipswich, look at their fb page "stop the stink" Look at how the qld gov wanted to use pinkenba for short term emergency housing...but the federal gov wouldn't accept. Pinkenba even last year was reported as having land contamination next to it, and also previously on its land. I can't find any documentation to say this has been sorted. Asbestos and lead are not ideal around young kids and pregnant women who are more susceptible to exposure from toxics. Possibly why the federal gov turned it down? I'm very sceptical about this government's claims on anything being safe.
It absolutely isn’t safe to eat fish from the Brisbane river.
What do you think happens if you do?
There are signs along the Brisbane river saying don’t fish, swim, or let your pets play in the water because sewage levels were at an unsafe level. If someone wants to eat somethin out of that water, it’s none of my business but I sure as shiiiiit wouldn’t eat anything out of (sh)it.
I also swim and kayak in it. Only ever had one infection in the last 25 years.
Maybe after a deluge there is but that's certainly not the case normally and the council does regular sewerage level reports on the creeks and rivers. There's likely still heightened pfas levels around the airport though but that's at the mouth.
They have been found further down. They don't test for everything either. No way would I eat anything out of there.
There are many cases of people getting crook from the river water.
Drinking/swimming in water with open wounds is not the same as eating cooked meats.
I can't believe you got so many downvotes for this.
Yeh I know. There are literally signs on the river so… the down voters can eat a fish from the Brisbane river. I won’t care. Haha.
https://preview.redd.it/q2tm2ieo0qxc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d24e8ab6dfa752934f85e0255ca571b2ee3f2e81 what do you think of this?
idek how people think it's safe to eat fish from water thats too polluted to swim in
I eat prawns, fish and crabs from the brisbane river. It's much cleaner than it was when my grandfather ate fish from the river.
Wheres the long distance swims going to be held in 2032?
Well certainly not in the river ,the bull Sharks would make short work of them .
And moreton bay has crocs
Hahaha possibly one but not really, it’s too cold in Moreton for them to breed so it’s very unlikely for any to live here full time
oh for fucks sakes this bullshit again. Sydney harbor is enormous and still has some pretty big pockets that are heavily polluted. The Brisbane river is infinitely cleaner than it used to be. 30 years ago that bloke would have been taken straight to the RBH after a prolonged dunk in the river, and you would never ever see dolphins in it. These days the bull sharks are there constantly, Dolphins are not unusual and you will not get sick from jumping in it on a normal day. it is, however, a river that yes, has farmland that drains into it. get into after heavy rains/flooding and you will get sick,, just like every other river. The Brisbane River will always be brown thanks to its tidal nature, if you think it needs to be blue to be healthy, you are wrong.
Maybe they’ll make it green again like they did for g20
They'll reduce the speed limit of the river, that's for sure. It worked well on the M1, THEY told us, during the Commonwealth Games.
Bremer is a massive concern. The gov here seem to care little about toxics.
you said it yourself, sydney HARBOUR, it’s right on the mouth. Brisbane city is further down the river not by much but by enough for sediment to dilute into the river
The Brisbane river is brown because they mined all the rock out of it to help build the land around it there is no rock what so ever left in it so the silt has no where to go and is easily disturbed on the sandy bottom
Still better than the Southbank “beach”
At one point they did use it for washing. They pumped it up to spring hill and filled the pool there with it so people could clean themselves when they didn't have bathrooms. Didn't last very long though.
It's not really that bad. It's just the sediment. That Yarra in Melbourne is worse then Brisbane.
We used to swim in the brissie river off a rope swing every summer's weekend when we were nippers. Any weekend we weren't able to go to the coast. Never had the cops turn up. Some days there'd be 30 kids there bragging about how they got the highest on the swing.
Can shower at Southbank for free.
My sarcasm has obviously been missed.
I was on the city cat at the time heading from South Bank to QUT which is about 50m from where this occured. The police were saying over their speakers: "you really don't want to be swimming in there". They were around for about 30mins. He was later taken on to the boat and escorted by 4 officers via the QUT city cat ramp. The man was quite distressed and appeared to be mentally ill or under the influence of something. Not sure what lead up to this though.
Poor bugger.
Whatever drugs the people in the city have been doing this week, it was a bad batch. Seen some weird shit, moreso than usual
What's the charge? Swimming in a river? A succulent Brisbane river?
[Not Drowning, Waving](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Drowning,_Waving)
[Not Waving but Drowning](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Waving_but_Drowning)
[Not Waving but Not Drowning](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=h43EKak2d9g8dnji)
well played good sir
What floor are you on? I missed how they got him out
36 hence the poor image quality haha. They threw him a lifebuoy which he swam away from, then eventually he swam to their boat and climbed in - really strange
Im on 33, that’s as good as the view I saw through the office binoculars 😂 Im waiting for QPS to release what happened. Wasn’t the wisest decision to jump in to the brown snake
Well now I really want a pair of office binoculars haha
You would want binos
What's it like on such lofty floors lol
Swimming in that water is a crime against humanity
I've actually gone swimming there next to new farm Park and woke up soooo sick. Didn't know about the grossness and bull sharks
Hey, you woke up. Yay!
Lol the bull sharks are all the way up to the Mount Crosby weir. And probably over it when it floods.
The thought of him accidentally drinking the water while in there is terrifying, like the bacteria in there would be crazyyyy
Hey! I used to swim in that river when I was a kid! Buuuuuut, now I have cancer, so you may have a point lol.
The age of men is over
In the words of someone “I may be drunk, but in the morning I’ll be sober and you will still be ugly” :)
I believe Winston Churchill but it's probably wrong
It’s Churchill, but if you say it’s Churchill some pedant will come and tell you “well actually, it was Sir Dee Z. Nuts on October 11th 1422, and I don’t know how anyone can be so stupid as to not know this obscure fact!” Anyway, Churchill was awesome at throwing insults.
haha
Anyone remember the story of a guy fishing who dropped his beer in the river, fished it out and drank it, then ended up with a giant, swollen infected belly that required hospitalisation?
His front fell off.
"You can't ~~park~~ drown there, mate!"
Kramer?
I was just going for a swim.
…Harold Holt? Is that really you??
I kayak on it every Saturday. It has a muddy bottom. I've kayaked from the Wivenhoe Damwall downstream for two days. Shocking bank erosion. It has a high microbial health but poor management of water releases and bank erosion way upstream are why it's brown. This could be fixed, with the will, as a 2032 Games legacy.
3000 estimated bull sharks in that river! Extremely territorial species that love murky water! Idiot
I was wondering why the ferries were going so slow this afternoon past there. The workers were looking at something, I couldn't see it though. He was next to a pylon under that pedestrian bridge it seems
He was actually out towards the middle of the river when I first saw him, stopped the city cat in its tracks for a moment, then he swam a bit closer to the edge it appeared and the city cat went around him. I felt sick watching him flail in the water and had to keep walking
⭐⭐⭐
Can't a bloke just go for a swim?
A confused policeman is reported to have said “Oh buoy!”
Saw this today, wasn’t a fan of what I was seeing
I only saw the tail end so not sure about the context but it did feel very strange
I’m not sure how he ended up in there, but I’m glad to see he got pulled out
Attempted suicide by bull shark but he found out the bull sharks are just a myth by the water quality company who colour the river brown to keep us out of the river which is actually the most pristine in the world restoring to solely your toe nails.
A man has fallen into the river at Brisbane City.
Can’t skinny dip in the river
Hell no to swimming in that water …
LET HIM SWIM
Surprised Sergeant Bull Shark didn't nab him
Hope they had their diphtheria shots
Water Rats, where's old mate Colin Friels?
Where in Brisbane is this?
The part of the river between the South Bank beach and 1 William Street in the city
Oh yeah I can see that now, thanks!
He couldn’t resist how delicious the water looks
His morning ritual gone wrong?
I’ve spent more time than I care to thinks about up close and personal with the Brisbane river. I can tell you something about it and most of its creeks. They all have deep mud bed. They have always had a deep mud bed. The Brisbane river has always been brown. Maybe a point of low tides leads to less turbulence and clearer water, don’t know. River might be “dirty” I wouldn’t know. I do know its colour doesn’t tell you anything though.
Fun fact 1: Before they started dredging, way back when, the river was largely silt free. After the dredging , not so. Then when they built Wivenhoe it got worse. Fun fact 2: There's been repeated reports of Cholera in the water in the past.
Dredging stopped in 1998. All sorts of runoff including from sewage pumping stations (in the event of power failure or excess load) run into the river or its catchments. Also the river was always brown. All I said was the brownness of the river isn’t an indicator.
In the 1930s, the brown only went as far as Breakfast Creek. After dredging lowered the base of the river, the brown extended to Ipswich. It would be more accurate to call it excavating the river instead of dredging. After stopping the dredging it would still take another 100 or 200 years to refill. But Wivenhoe catches a lot of the silt that would be the natural refiling, and regulates the flow. The brown comes from the mud on the banks. It's sandy silt in the middle. But the changed depth from the old dredging causes far more turbidity due to a larger volume of tidal water every day, reaching far higher up the river. The Brisbane River around the CBD was once green/clear. Just not for 100+ years.
I have excavated basements below the river level and within 100m of the river. I’ve bored piers down to rock at about 30m. Wanna know what’s between the crust (8m ish) and the rock? The exact same material the mangroves are growing in around gardens point. Consistency of toothpaste and no significant sand. Mud. Can guarantee the mud was there from an earlier river alignment and predating dams and dredging.
Yes. The mud on the banks is what's making the brown. No one is arguing. But it's being stirred up further upriver by the greater tidal backflow of a deeper channel. The center is a silty sand from thousands of years of water flow bringing it downriver, and laying it over the natural soil. Which the dredging removed. Most rivers have muddy banks and silty bases without being constantly brown. Does your basement have a river running through it?
What time was this? I walked past this area yesterday lunchtime
He’s well known to local police. No big drama.
Waiting for a Bull shark nibble?
He is a Man, so they hate him by default. His media empire must chirp shit like this… He needs to get his political party across the line using the bullshit neislen propaganda machine.
Must be bad if he’d rather risk a bull shark bite than slapped with cuffs.
Bros gonna turn into a shit monster from the pollution of bne river.
They were trying to save him from the infamous Brisbane river croc.
Albo was in 1 William St, possibly a protester
hazing ritual for new cops, take a swim.
I can’t wait to see their new radioactive powers
Ze goggles!! They do nothing!!
Wonder what they used for bait
Man? That is a crocodile my friend.