Victoria’s dams are continuing to fill up, led by Lake Eppalock where water volume increased by 3 per cent during the past two weeks.
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The rise makes Eppalock the state’s fullest at 93 per cent, followed by the Hume Dam near Wodonga, which rose 9 per cent during the same period to 88 per cent.
Goulburn-Murray Water managing director Pat Lennon said the rises pointed to an optimistic outlook for at least the next few months for irrigators.
“In the weeks leading up to the re-opening of the irrigation season on August 15, and after experiencing dry mid-winter conditions, we were expecting to receive many requests from our farming customers wanting to place water orders,” he said.
“However with recent rainfall across the [district] – impacting positively on all our irrigation districts – many customers are able to delay dipping into their water allocations until later.”
In the wider northern Victorian region, the total volume available to entitlement holders is about 14 per cent higher than this time last year.
