<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/691b775c-2479-460a-952b-99fc4a518106/F48A0CA0-E972-46FA-A5C1-8034A23E162B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nenews.com.au/stories/chStory02n.htm" href="http://www.nenews.com.au/stories/chStory02n.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nenews.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nenews.com.au/stories/chStory02n.htm"><FONT size="2" face="MS%20Sans%20Serif"> Written by <B> SALLY EVANS</B>.</FONT> <P>KING Valley residents were given a glimpse of what is still to come following heavy rains in the scorched countryside last week.</p> <P>Myrrhee landholder, Clinton Corker, said the previously dry 15 Mile Creek turned to sludge when rain washed with ash and silt from the recent bushfires on Wednesday.</p> <P>The same could be seen from about another three adjoining properties, and that was just after an inch of rain on a small patch of the creek catchment.</p> <P>Mr Corker fears what could happen with heavy rainfall across the region with the break of the ongoing drought.</p> <P>"<B>We managed to avoid the fires, but I think this could be worse than the fires,</B>" he said.</p> <P>"<B>I think it’s going to be a disaster.</B></p> <P><B>"<B>It will take all winter to settle down and in the meantime, it’s going to wipe out our whole river ecosystem.</B></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F48A0CA0-E972-46FA-A5C1-8034A23E162B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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