Avon River @York 🤓

Parts of this river basin were amongst the earliest settled areas in Western Australia. Difficult beginnings were described as -Early European settlers in the Avon region faced extremely difficult conditions, not least from the Avon River itself. The river flooded in 1847, 1849, 1857, 1859 and 1862, and then again in 1902 and 1926. On the 21st of July 1926, the Avon River flooded Fitzgerald Street in Northam (Landgate, 2012).-by nrsmstrategy.au A tributary of the Swan River, this river flows 240km (150mi) from source to mouth w an area of 48,000 sq mi. Lake Yealering in the Shire of Wickepin is the point of origin for the upper Avon River, and the catchment size above the confluence with the Salt River at Yenyening Lakes is 91,500 square kilometres (35,300 sq mi).[3] The basin covers much of the Western Australian wheatbelt[4] and extends beyond that in some areas near almost-always-dry Lake Moore in the northeast, water is received regularly from only the extreme western edge of the basin. Indeed, until an abnormally wet year in 1963 it was not realised that the northeastern part of the basin beyond Wongan Hills ever drained water into the river.-wiki #avonriver #westernaustralia #weekend #soulsearching