The Channon Tavern Reopens!

The devastating ood of Feb 2022 went right through the pub,and it has been closed since. e community has been keenly waiting for this gathering place to come back to life.

Firstly,thank you to Natalie Quinn and your family and crew for running the pub for many years before the big ood.All the best,and thankyou.

And,welcome to the new pub owners,Darcy,Will and Laurie! e community is stoked to have you.

Even though there were many things left to be 'ready',the new crew heard the community's enthusiasm for having theTavern space back,and so on the 13th Jan (almost a year since the oods) it opened its doors.With the bar of cold drinks,a food truck outside and cranking live music,the feeling in the air was one of celebration,reconnection and new beginnings.About 300 (could be closer to 500) people came from all around to the opening.

"Huge thankyou to the community for putting on the working bee days and helping us get the doors open! It was a heart melting couple of weeks leading up to the opening,and having people coming up to us giving us hugs with tears in their eyes on the opening night really blew us away", says Darcy.

"It is our vision to keep eTavern 'as is' with some minor improvements, particularly for the outdoor seating/ event areas.We will be replacing the pokies with live music and want to make the best use of the space by offering park yoga,veggie gardens, information sessions/workshops. We want this to be a warm and welcoming gathering place for the community,and visitors who come through our beautiful area".

"We would love your feedback so please let us know by emailing us at admin@thechannontavern.com.au".

Here are some things the new team would love you to know:

Opening hours are 2pm10pm ursday - Sunday (open at 12pm on Market sundays)

Different food trucks each evening between 4pm-8pm (burgers, ai,Indian,Japanese,Korean, Italian) until we open our kitchen

Hoping to open the kitchen within the next 4-8 weeks to provide classic australian pub food with a Japanese twist

Will open from 11am once the kitchen is open

Live music instead of pokies/ keno/tab

Look forward to the pool comp every ursday,with talks of trivia/joker draws/meat raffles starting back up in the near future anks so much for bringing back our community gathering place,and we look forward to many chilled,and celebratory moments shared at e ChannonTavern in the future.

Our Terania-Keerrong Flood Safety project is taking shape.We’re bedding down a system whereby upstream rain sentinels provide data on rain intensity during rain events.Some have online electronic weather stations.If these should fail,we rely on admirable and committed sentinels to make two-hourly observations to give us the precipitation rate (rain intensity). We are improving as we go, and during the October event were able to provide collated rain intensity data to the SES.We also provided this information to downstream members of our CB radio network by sending them an email rain summary,then a group text to look at their email,and a CB radio broadcast to remind them to check their inbox. If the internet goes down we’ll need to provide this information via radio.Our Tech Development team is working on a way to show real-time rain and creek levels on our own website,but that’s a work in progress.

Our partnership with the ANU Institute of Climate,Energy and Disaster Solutions has been most helpful.Dr Barry Croke is developing a hydrological model for theTerania catchment,and their team is applying for a grant which, if successful,will enable us to get the creek monitoring and communication gear we need to get to the next stage. is gets us to your ood observations! We hope to tap into the wealth of knowledge in our community and seek your observations of where oods reached in 2017 and 2022.We will soon launch this project via social media and lea ets.If you are not on social media please reach out to us by emailing SafeTerania@gmail.com,or phone Anna Conley 0490-089-676. e Terania sub-catchment includes Tuntable,Terania,Branch and Rocky creeks.It covers Terania creek down to the junction with Goolmangar Creek, including Bowen gully and the unnamed creek that ows into Terania from Koonorigan. is is what we’re after:

Your observations of ood extent on the land during the oods of 2017 and 2022.In particular if you can point to the spot you think the ood extent came to.

Photos that show ood extent or height against permanent structures such as poles,fences,big rocks or trees.

Searchyour phoneimages

Could you search your phone images? e most important dates are 30th March 2017,and the February and March oods of 2022.Once you nd the photo,have a look at the information about the image (if you don’t know how to do this,ask someone who has a similar phone). e image information will tell you the date and time it was taken.We suggest you make a copy of good photos for safekeeping.

Once our project is underway we will visit locations where residents can point to ood extent so we can get GPS coordinates. is will help build our understanding of how rain translates to ood-on-landscape.We will also show interested people how to add text to images that gives year,date,time and location (when sharing images on social media it’s important that people know what they’re looking at).Photos with this information written on them are what we mean by ‘benchmarked photos’. Remember to always keep a copy of unmarked originals. e Channon Resilience would like to thank Northern Rivers Community Foundation for the grant that makes it possible to engage Anna Conley on this ood observation project.We know there’s a treasure trove of community ood knowledge and we can’t wait to gather it.