Date: 14/09/2022 10:52:10
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1932547
Subject: Water storage

I happened to notice that my water tank hasn’t run dry for nearly a year, which is unprecedented here in the past 20 years.
There was a real risk of Melbourne running out of water circa 2010.

So checked up water supply.
Melbourne water storage levels currently 93.3%. This is a record since the end of 1996.
We had a wet 2020 and 2021.

How’s your water supply going?

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Date: 14/09/2022 10:55:33
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1932551
Subject: re: Water storage

mollwollfumble said:


I happened to notice that my water tank hasn’t run dry for nearly a year, which is unprecedented here in the past 20 years.
There was a real risk of Melbourne running out of water circa 2010.

So checked up water supply.
Melbourne water storage levels currently 93.3%. This is a record since the end of 1996.
We had a wet 2020 and 2021.

How’s your water supply going?

Total for the three Toowoomba dams 100.2%

On 13 Sep 2021, it was 25%.

https://www.tr.qld.gov.au/environment-water-waste/water-supply-dams/dams-bores/8066-water-supply-and-dam-level-statistics

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Date: 14/09/2022 10:55:37
From: Tamb
ID: 1932552
Subject: re: Water storage

mollwollfumble said:


I happened to notice that my water tank hasn’t run dry for nearly a year, which is unprecedented here in the past 20 years.
There was a real risk of Melbourne running out of water circa 2010.

So checked up water supply.
Melbourne water storage levels currently 93.3%. This is a record since the end of 1996.
We had a wet 2020 and 2021.

How’s your water supply going?

Doing well.
All over 90% full.

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Date: 14/09/2022 10:58:57
From: sibeen
ID: 1932556
Subject: re: Water storage

mollwollfumble said:


I happened to notice that my water tank hasn’t run dry for nearly a year, which is unprecedented here in the past 20 years.
There was a real risk of Melbourne running out of water circa 2010.

So checked up water supply.
Melbourne water storage levels currently 93.3%. This is a record since the end of 1996.
We had a wet 2020 and 2021.

How’s your water supply going?

1996 was when Melbourne had its highest ever water storage. There had been time previously where the storage had been at 100% but this was before the Thompson dam was brought on-line.

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Date: 14/09/2022 11:34:37
From: Michael V
ID: 1932576
Subject: re: Water storage

>>>>>>>> How’s your water supply going?

Our water is supplied from an unconfined aquifer held in the Cooloola Sand Mass (up to 250 metres of unconsolidated fine to very fine sand), which supports several spring-fed creeks and perched lakes. Given that we average about 1500 mm of rain (2283 mm YTD) and it all goes into the sand mass without runoff, I don’t expect our village of 1,000 people will run out of water.

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Date: 14/09/2022 22:09:59
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1932844
Subject: re: Water storage

Michael V said:


>>>>>>>> How’s your water supply going?

Our water is supplied from an unconfined aquifer held in the Cooloola Sand Mass (up to 250 metres of unconsolidated fine to very fine sand), which supports several spring-fed creeks and perched lakes. Given that we average about 1500 mm of rain (2283 mm YTD) and it all goes into the sand mass without runoff, I don’t expect our village of 1,000 people will run out of water.

> 1996 was when Melbourne had its highest ever water storage. There had been time previously where the storage had been at 100% but this was before the Thomson dam was brought on-line.

Thanks for that info. Found a chart for that dam.

Just checking on Perth, which also gets a lot of water from groundwater. Also desalination.

Dams are 62.9% full, up from 60.8% a year ago.

Perth water in dams is also approaching the highest level for a while, with wet years 2018 and 2021 (not 2020).
A horror year for Perth dam levels was 2015. If 2016 had been as dry as 2015 then dam levels would have been very close to zero at the end of the year. But luckily for Perth, 2016 was a wet year.

Adelaide reservoir levels are 74%, about the same as 75% this time last year.

I don’t see a chart for Adelaide.

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