Drought

  • LEND A HAND: MP pushing for drought relief for region

    WESTERN VICTORIA MP Simon Ramsay says the Colac district is “suffering some of its driest conditions on record” and should receive drought assistance.

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  • RUNNING DRY: Dam levels plummet as drought persists

    COLAC and district’s water storages are at 31-per-cent capacity, less than at the same time of year during the region’s 2007-2008 declared drought.

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  • PARCHED: Lake Colac days from drying up

    LAKE COLAC is days away from completely drying up for the second time since European settlement in Colac 179 years ago.

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  • PARCHED: Dry times force Colac onto water restrictions

    BARWON WATER will place Colac and district residents on stage two water restrictions for the first time in almost three years, as water storages dry out.

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  • 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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