The Murray River at Koondrook-Barham is on the decline after a week of extreme height forecasts and even an evacuation scare for the Koondrook Primary School. Despite the river being on decline and steady flows through Torrumbarry, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) issued a flood warning of 6.3m on Wednesday, November 2 for Koondrook-Barham. The move caused a flurry of activity on both sides of the river as truck loads of sandbags and teams of workers including Defence Force, CFA, RFS, SES and community volunteers built up the defences for the forecast threat. 

Many wondered how the 6.3m forecast came about; was it a rounding up of the