The live height of the Moyne River at the Toolong gauge upstream of Port Fairy, with its recent range and trend — the river reading the local flood guide watches. Official flood warnings linked.
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Port Fairy wraps the Moyne River estuary where it meets the Southern Ocean. The town floods two ways — when heavy rain upstream brings the river down, and when storm tides push up the river mouth — so when the river is rising it pays to keep an eye on it. This page shows the live height of the Moyne River at the Toolong gauge, about 13 km upstream, with where it sits against the river's own recent range. Toolong is the gauge the local flood guide points to as the indication of flood conditions for Port Fairy. It is not a flood warning: the official warnings are linked below.
No current reading for Moyne River
The gauge isn’t reporting a recent value, so we won’t guess at one. The official flood-vigilance level is set by VicEmergency.
The official flood warning is at VicEmergency
These numbers describe the river. They are not a flood warning — the official flood-vigilance level for this station is set by VicEmergency.
Victoria's official channel for flood warnings and advice. Moyne River flood warnings issued by the Bureau of Meteorology appear here. In a flood emergency call VICSES on 132 500; if life is at risk, call 000.
There is a gauge in town at the Gipps Street bridge, but down at the river mouth the level mostly rises and falls with the tide, which tells you little about flooding. The Toolong gauge upstream reads the river itself, before the water reaches town — which is why VICSES's Port Fairy flood guide uses it as the indication of flood conditions.
Riverine flooding comes from heavy rain in the Moyne catchment raising the river; coastal flooding comes from storm tides and sea level pushing up the estuary at the river mouth, and the two can combine. This gauge shows the river side of that picture, not the tide at the bridge in town.
It is the river height at the Toolong gauge in metres, as the Bureau of Meteorology records it — a provisional, telemetered reading, not a flood level. We show where it sits against the river's own range over the last 30 days so you can see whether it is rising, steady or falling.
Checked 27 Jun, 14:24. River data from the Bureau of Meteorology (Water Data Online), © Commonwealth of Australia, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Real-time readings are provisional and may be revised.