"All The Rivers Run-----Maybe ??????"

la la la 34%!! We yearn for 34%

your 34% would last longer than ours LOL

Our total capacity is less than 10 000ML

Kev, hopefully you'll get your share out of this rain event if it happens and raise that percenatge a bit. There's plenty others in the same or worse situation unfortunately, as we all know :-((

Coming back up the Central West from Berrigan last Sunday, I heard on the ABC that Orange, just west of the Great Divide from Sydney, is going to level 5 water restrictions. I stopped at Cowra at the train museum C/P and their water supply is tank water.

(Sensational little park BTW for anyone going that way).

If it only rains down here, unfortunately we can't send it "Up" that way LOL.

All I can say is "Send 'er down Hughie" :-)))

C Ya.

Fred.

Fred,

It would be good to see it at about 150% because that will mean a reasonable flow in the river LOL

Plus I am running out of water to go fishing in hehehe Although the less water there is the less distance between fish, which increases my chances especially when the kids are with me.

Council in their wisdom diecided against increasing the water restrictions when we hit 35% instead are going to enforce greater restrictions when we hit 25%.

The number of people here who already break the ater restrictions is astonishing. All I can do is politely tell them that they are breaking the restrictions as "Council" don't want me to enforce it here.

Cheers Kev

Fred & all

Unfortunately Orange has gone back into level 5a (that was on the sign) we saw yesterday as were visiting Orange. The two other major dams in our area Wyangala and Burrendong are down around 7%. Carcoar is the same and Windamere (near Mudgee) is just below 20%.

I thought that Menindee had got a good pickup the other week after that last big couple of downpours but checking on the state apparently it is just starting to rise.

We are OK here at Bathurst but you are spot on Kev regarding water restrictions, the council did impose self regulated restrictions early last year when the dam level went to 34% (I think those figures are OK, memory) and now just about everyone is thinking seriously about water use.

Good to see Lake Keepit is still over 25% and yet Split Rock dam out near Manilla has been under 5% for years now and it has a massive storage area and they don't bring in restrictions until the dam is below 4% (according to local legends) and they were sober at the time.

Regards
Paul H

I came up through Urana and Lockhart last weekend, and veeeerrry dry.

Does anyone know when Lake Urana last held water ??? Looks huge, but dry.

Funny sight near their C/P is the Urana Aquatic Centre, set on the banks of a backwater from the Lake. Lots of infrastructure for the making of a decent Aquatic Centre, just one thing missing....not a drop of water within miles LOL.

Gday Kev,
You poor buggers are running out of water and we have never even heard of restrictions, in fact the council still waters when its raining........ apparently its just to hard to turn the sprinklers of. LOL
Now we are about to start drilling for Uranium right next to our only water supply..........bit of bad luck if they punch into the water table hey!

Cheers

Hairy,

Maranoa Regional Council has just announced that the treated water from the Coal Seam Gas wells is going to be pumped back underground to top up the local aquifiers. I don't really see the point as they then have to pump it back up to use it LOL

Here the Western Downs Regional Council, are still negotiating for the companies to treat and supply the towns with the water directly. The water is said to be high in Salts so it needs to be treated which creates another issue, where does the salt end up?? I have heard that they are going to sell the salty brine to another manufacturer for who knows what.

Cheers Kev

G'day Mark

We are home again.

Yep, Darling running a banker at Bourke. Road to Louth is closed. Countryside very green and wet all the way from the east coast to Bourke.

Will post some pics soon


Cheers

Dave,

Was he able to see over the top of it in the X Trail??


There is rain brewing in the west at the moment but I think it is going to miss us and head south between Charleville and possibly Roma (maybe a bit further East)


Cheers Kev

I'd like to see it come a bit further East as well and drop some in the Lachlan catchment. Our dam, Wyangala, is at 5.7%

They have just completed and opened the $185 Million pipe line to Toowoomba, I wonder if this is just the start??



Cheers Kev

G/Day Kev

It would be great if it was.

Just on the Toowoomba subject, the residents had a Referendum on whether to use Treated Effluent in conjunction with their existing dam storage and it was defeated with a NO vote, but little do they realise that if the Wivanhoe Dam levels drop to a certain level the Water Commission will be pumping Treated Effluent in to that dam which inturn will be pumped to Toowoomba.

hahahahahahahaha

Where do they think Fish go to crap??

Not to mention the wildlife etc that live in the catchment areas for the dams

They could always do what Bradfield Suggested back in the 30s, Drop three QLD Coastal rivers into the Darling catchment with a scheme similar to the Snowys.