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River in South Australia, Australia

Pirie–Torrens corridor

Location
Country	Australia
State	South Australia
Region	Far North
Physical characteristics

Source	Lake Torrens
• coordinates	31°56′27.7″S 137°46′15.5″E / 31.941028°S 137.770972°E / -31.941028; 137.770972
• elevation	30 m (98 ft)

Mouth	Spencer Gulf
• location	Emeroo
• coordinates	32°24′15.6″S 137°45′16.2″E / 32.404333°S 137.754500°E / -32.404333; 137.754500
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	59 km (37 mi)

Discharge
• location	Port Augusta
• average	0.5 m/s (18 cu ft/s)

Basin features
Tributaries
• right	Sandy Creek

The Pirie–Torrens corridor is an approximately 59 km (37 mi) long intermittent watercourse that serves as the only natural outlet of Lake Torrens, a large normally endorheic salt lake in central South Australia.

Only on two recorded occasions — in 1836, and again in March 1989 — has Lake Torrens filled high enough to flow out through the corridor to its outlet at the head of the Spencer Gulf. The corridor likely flowed in 1897.

References

^ "Appendix O - Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Sampling in Spencer Gulf: Calibration Report" (PDF), Olympic Dam Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Statement 2009, BMT WBM Pty Ltd., 2009, retrieved 9 June 2019
Bye, John; Stanger, Gordon; Noonan, John (2015). "The major flooding of Lake Torrens in March 1989 (abstract)". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 139 (2): 171–188. doi:10.1080/03721426.2015.1065467. S2CID 83698880.
Williams, W.D.; De Deckker, P.; Shiel, R.J. (1998). "The limnology of Lake Torrens, an episodic salt lake of central Australia with particular reference to unique events in 1989" (PDF). Hydrobiologia. 384: 101. doi:10.1023/A:1003207613473. S2CID 27646645. Retrieved 9 June 2019 – via Australian National University.
John K. Warren (12 June 2006). Evaporites:Sediments, Resources and Hydrocarbons: Sediments, Resources, and Hydrocarbons. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 201. ISBN 9783540323440.

v t e Rivers of South Australia
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Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin	Angas Bremer Burra Currency Finniss Marne Murray
Rivers of the Lake Eyre basin	Alberga Cooper Diamantina Finke Frome Neales Strzelecki Warburton Eyre Kallakoopah Officer Macumba
Rivers of Kangaroo Island	Cygnet De Mole Eleanor Harriet Middle Rocky Stun Sail Boom Willson
Rivers flowing into Lake Torrens	Willochra Creek Calabrinda Creek Kanyaka Creek Wirreanda Creek

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