Drought

  • RELIC RECLAIMED: Anchor buried in lake for decades

    TWO CHILDREN have discovered a century-old anchor 300 metres from the shore of Lake Colac.

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  • CAMPAIGNER CONCERNED: Groundwater pumping worries

    A Colac district resident says that if Barwon Water pumped water from the Barwon Downs borefield again it could “dry up the whole of the Otways”.

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  • COMMUNITY MEETING: Young campaigner pushing to fix lake

    A COLAC woman is calling on residents to help her in her quest to revitalise Lake Colac.

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  • Thousands of dead fish at Lake Colac

    A LAKE COLAC watcher says he believes up to 500 tonnes of carp have died in the lake, contradicting the EPA’s estimated of up to 300.

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  • Push to poison carp in Colac waterways

    A COLAC fisherman is calling on the community to help pressure the State Government to clean up Lake Colac as water levels drop.

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  • Lake Colac fish kill likely next month

    THE ENVIRONMENT Protection Authority has forecast a mass “fish-death event” in Lake Colac next month as the shoreline continues to recede.

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  • Water carters under the pump as farms dry up

    COLAC district water carters are feeling the heat, with a lack of rain throughout the region increasing the demand of water.

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  • Colac water supply upgrade fast-tracked

    BARWON WATER will connect Colac to Geelong’s water system two years earlier than planned.

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