River levels and height advice

[brendomac]

So I headed out to the Turon river last weekend and was a bit surprised to see that it was dry (other than a couple of small pools). Although I suppose it isn't surprising given that we have had no rain.

The thing that threw me was the waterways advice. I checked this before I went. It said the river height was 1.29 from Sofala to the Bridle track.

Here is the site and a pic: http://www.waterwaysguide.org.au/river-levels

Just wondering what I am missing in regards to the 1.29 metre height but there is no water? I'm guessing it must be measuring against something, but I'm not sure what.

Thanks all

 

[MrPyro89]

I was up there last weekend as well and all i found was couple small pools of water and that was it, surely someone was having a bad day when updating the levels on the site.

 

[Manpa]

Id reckon the red dots would sound alarms particularly as the fall below the min levels marker. I like the stay at home market, cant be any plainer than that.