A FEW kilometres south of Kerang, a new wetland is already teeming with life.

Less than a month ago, around 135 megalitres of water was pumped into two ephemeral flood runners that stretch across roughly one kilometre on Dale Trevorrow's farm.

Mr Trevorrow bought the property in 1996, and after observing the creek beds fill multiple times during floods and high rivers, the irrigation and livesto...