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Post by Macedonian »

I dont think they are gonna let it officially hit 100%, it was 99.9% a while back. still, full is full and that is fantastic!
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Probably a good idea to let a bit out this week Chris, looks like there could be 50-100mm rain up there in the next 2 weeks, so playing it safe at this stage I'd say.
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Goulburn was fantastic this weekend just past, my son had a ball paddling around the rapids in it. They were releasing a bit more than they have in the last few months and the level was just right for some fun :D

I agree, Geoff, I think they may be erring on the side of caution somewhat, though you'd think they'd let it go that extra .2% or whatever it needed to just fill it for ONE day!
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Thats what i would think too, Lily. They could do it just for us :D
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Blue Green

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No way....not another summer with BG! I thought we may have escaped it this season with lower inflows than last.
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Oh bugger, again? I thought we were out of the woods.
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All Clear on Blue Green...!

yeah we can have a swim, time to head up in the milder weather.. !

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Yeah we were wondering what the fuss was about....water has been clear and clean...and a great temperature.
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Eildon in the Sunday Age today...cute story about a house boating family

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An interesting observation, GM-W reports Lake Eildon rose 766 ml or 0.02% today on yesterday :o this after average weekly drops in recent weeks of 15-30 K ml. Instant results for the lake after 100mm + falls over the past few days and on a dry catchment.

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It's been very quiet in this thread lately. I guess the new norm is a near full lake these days.

Anyway after reaching 99.9% last December (from memory) the lake level fell back to around 84% in April and today reached 90%.

Surly we can expect it to reach 100% by Spring, especially if some of these major rain events being tipped by Karl and AV eventuate.


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Re: Lake Eildon

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Wow, that's a big drop Blackie. Why so much? is that the normal seasonal fall-away or have they been carrying out their 'controlled releases'?
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Hi D, that drop of 16% during the irrigation season is actually relatively low due to lower requirement by farmers because of rain. During the drought years it wasn't uncommon for the lake to drop 20 or 30% over a season, if the water was available. Release levels have been high over April/May/June (up to 5000 ml/d) due to flood mitigation I would have thought...this at a time when normally there'd by perhaps 150 ml/d release for environmental flow.
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Worth noting the significant rise of Eildon of the past few weeks and 3.5% during the last week alone. The catchment is soaked and with more rain expected for the area during the next week rapid rises should continue. Hoping the lake authority allow it to reach 100% this year.
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See Eildon is over 78% full as of last Sunday. With good rain last month and so far for August the catchment is now rather wet so any rain is
really making a difference. And it looks like significant rain next weekend!

Went up around 4% in a matter of days.

Alexandra had over a 100mm rain for July and around 70mm so far for August (13th) so after a very dry Autumn and early winter "things are a changing".
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Worth noting that the last few days the lake has been filling at the rate of near 1% PER DAY!!! 10% in two weeks. Can't remember this happing at this rate before. Weekly inflow peak over the weeked at around !80,000 ML per week :o
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It is looking really good for spring isn't it B?! I remember in September 2010, the lake had a daily inflow of 99,000ML, and about 250,000ML over 3 days! The lake filled about 10% in one week.

Considering we were looking at quite a modest filling season this winter, I have been very pleasantly surprised :)
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Post by Blackie »

The lake has bottomed out (hopefully!) at 69.87% and has recored a small rise this week. Hopefully with regular rain we'll see 100% by the end of the year. Level at this time last year was 71.55% so very similar.

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Post by Australis(Shell3155) »

Arrived Monday Blackie, home wednesday, popped 2 markers in with 2 rocks next too them tuesday maybe mid morning,
then today after mid day popped in another 2 sticks with 2 rocks about 250mm lower that yesterdays, so bottoming out, uh oh..
still dropping from what I see.
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