It doesn't go completely dry, no, but sometimes water is let out to the farming community - it is an irrigation lake - you should be right mid March, I would think - we were there last Easter, and plenty of water.

Enjoy the lake!

Thanks, that was a swift reply by you both.

 

Yes, Froggos - Lake Cooper is very low at the moment - apparently they are having trouble getting some speedboats in, which means a lot more are coming over to Greens. GM Water don't run it, they only manage irrigation etc., and there is some talk with council about putting some water into Lake Cooper - don't know where they will get it from though! The water in Greens is owned by the stakeholders (farmers), which is why we need to look after it, and keep rubbish, plastic bags etc out of it.

Easy enough to do, you would think - GM Water provide big rubbish bins.

barina wrote:

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Lake Cooper looked very brown when I went passed a couple of weeks ago.....

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 !!Judy!!, that was a ploughed up field, not the lake,,, you went past,,  your biggest Fan..   billeeeeeee

 

jules47 wrote:

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Was there last week, barina - and same colour as usual - depends on the sky I think.

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 My God, Julie.. the sky,???? that as sic as my answer..hahahaha.......   eeeeeeelliB..

Yes the water in Lake Cooper is low.
Walking on the boat ramp you can see that the water level is at least a metre below last years water mark, which over the whole Lake is a hell of a lot of water.

We were at Lake Cooper in the Vic Water Ski Park over the Christmas week, camped on an extended family members reserved block, for family festive get together. Shirleys daughter and her husbands family are into water skiing and had shifted their cabins down from the Murray to that Park last year.

Day prior to Christmas Day they attempted to launch their boat from the boat ramp but got bogged with the boat high and dry. I snatched their 4WD and boat on trailer out, then did the same for another vehicle/boat combination that thought they could do better. They attempted to launch at another location just off the bank and again got bogged in the water with the boat nowhere near being able to be launched, and so again I snatched them out. There was no damage to the bank except tyre tracks mixed in with the local fisher peoples vehicles (who were laughing at us) as the bank was quiet firm.

Boxing day saw us at Greens to launch the boat and give the kids a ride/ski/knee-board and Shirl and I a chance to meet Jules/Billeeeeeee/John and a few others, sorry I have forgotten your names.

That afternoon new arrivals at the Park suggested a bank launching spot that was used years ago. Initially they got it wrong, so I winched the vehicle out, after uncoupling the boat/trailer, as I could not snatch the whole combination without really wrecking the foreshore as I was starting to wheel spin due to mud caked tyres. Then I winched the boat/trailer out. This was then recoupled to the original vehicle, moved a few metres to the left and the boat was successfully launched from this spot. Once word spread in the camp, 4 other boats were soon launched without any dramas from this spot, though I was on standby as the recovery vehicle, which was worth a few beers that night LOL. 

So yes, Lake Cooper is in a sorry state at present for those wanting to launch speed boats.