With inflows still about 2000 megalitres a day, capacity is continuing to rise, leaving Coliban Water managing director Gavin Hanlon confident storages will overflow in the coming months.

The eight reservoirs were at 56.7 per cent capacity last Wednesday.

The largest catchment, Upper Coliban, reached 82.2 per cent yesterday, up from 54.5 per cent last Wednesday. Lauriston rose from 90.4 to 98.2 per cent.

“Its been fantastic – storages are up over 20 per cent to 77 per cent capacity,” he said.

“There’s a very high chance storages will spill over – the first time since 2001.

“As it is, this is the best we’ve seen since July, 2002.”

Coliban Water’s share of Lake Eppalock rose 13,400 megalitres or 24.5 per cent in the past week, bringing its capacity to 43,390 megalitres and water is still flowing in.

Mr Hanlon said staff had been on the lookout for problems all weekend.

All 13 sewerage suction trucks on stand-by were required on the weekend and floodgates at the Malmsbury reservoir were opened, but not needed.

Staff at Bendigo’s treatment plants were kept busy after a creek overflowed and ran through the last section of the waste water management system.

Mr Hanlon said the waste water had been well diluted and the risk to the public was very minimal.

While inflows had been positive for the catchment, Mr Hanlon said there was still a long way to go before they were back to normal.

“We’ve had 42,000 megalitres of inflow for the year and it’s normally 62,000 megalitres,” he said.

“We’re not back up to the average yet.

“I think it’s a fantastic thing, a lot of the pressure is off and you can say the drought’s about at the end, but we need another three or four years of this first.”