Water Storage Levels Up In Victoria
Water Storage Levels Up In Victoria – More good news is expected in coming weeks, with big inflows expected from the winter/spring filling season.
But this exceptional year for Melbourne’s water-storage levels comes at an awkward time for the state government, with its $750 million water pipeline to northern Victoria completed and the $3.5 billion desalination plant expected to be ready by next year.
Melbourne also remains on stage-3 water restrictions, limiting watering times for gardens.
Melbourne Water’s manager of water supply, John Woodland, said good rainfalls in recent years had been quickly absorbed by dry soil.
”But with winter rain falling on already wet catchments, we’re seeing more rain make its way into the dams,” he said.
”We’re now at the start of what is traditionally our wettest period of the year, when storages make their biggest gains, so we expect the rally to continue.”
The north-south pipeline and the reconnection of the Tarago Reservoir had helped to ”underpin” the recovery in the storages, he said, adding 64.5 billion litres.
Melbourne’s storages reached an all-time low at 25.6 per cent on June 24, 2009, but have been boosted by about 220 billion litres (or six-months’ supply for Melbourne) since, and yesterday reached 38.3 per cent.
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