Current Water Restriction News: Last updated 1st of July 2008
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Water Storage Levels as at 1st July 2008
|
Region |
Current Storage (ML) |
Storage
(% Full) |
Current Water Restrictions |
|
Amphitheatre |
33 |
49.8 |
Stage 2 |
|
Avoca |
76 |
15.8 |
Stage 2 |
|
Ballarat & District |
4,966 |
7.6 |
Stage
4 |
|
Beaufort |
45 |
19.9 |
Stage 3 |
|
Blackwood |
9 |
39.3 |
Stage 3 |
|
Clunes |
Groundwater Supply |
Groundwater Supply |
Stage
2 |
|
Daylesford |
386 |
47.0 |
Stage 2 |
|
Dean |
Groundwater Supply |
Groundwater Supply |
Stage 1 |
|
Forest Hill |
Groundwater Supply |
Groundwater Supply |
Stage
3 |
|
Landsborough/Navarre |
30 |
22.3 |
Stage 1 |
|
Learmonth |
Groundwater Supply |
Groundwater Supply |
Stage
1 |
|
Lexton |
36 |
29.9 |
Stage 3 |
|
Maryborough |
655 |
14.6 |
Stage 4 |
|
Redbank |
0 |
0.2 |
Stage 2 |
|
Waubra |
Groundwater Supply |
Groundwater Supply |
Stage
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
*Includes allocation from Tullaroop Reservoir
Ballarat Rainfall
April rainfall was well below the average for the month and the storage levels have been slowly declining.
| 11 years
of drought so far... |
2008 |
121mm |
44% below average |
2007 |
760.7mm |
14% below average |
| 2006 |
481mm |
46% below Average |
| 2005 |
681mm |
24% below average |
| 2004 |
836mm |
6% below average |
| 2003 |
734mm |
18% below average |
| 2002 |
624mm |
30% below average |
| 2001 |
787mm |
12% below average |
| 2000 |
830mm |
7% below average |
| 1999 |
743mm |
17% below average |
| 1998 |
728mm |
19% below average |
| 1997 |
598mm |
33% below average |
* Please note the rainfall figures are collected from
Beales Reservoir.
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