The Manning River is a river in the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia that flows through the Manning Valley. It is one of Australia's few large river systems not to be dammed for water supply purposes anywhere along its catchment. The local water supply is fed by Bootawa Dam, which is an offsite dam, however, water is pumped from the river to the dam whenever river turbidity and flow levels can allow.
A small weir exists on the upper most section of the Barnard River and is the Barnard River Scheme for Bayswater Power Station the scheme is shutdown until needed but as of 2006 this Scheme was partly decommissioned due to its rare use.
The lower part of the river is a delta system where it meets the sea, with several channels dividing coastal land into large islands, such as Mitchells and Oxley Islands.
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“The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men’s farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.”
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