Water

  • Water bills set to change

    Barwon Water has tweaked its water prices, cutting its service prices while increasing the amount it charges for each litre of water.

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  • STAGE THREE: Colac faces tougher water restrictions

    COLAC, Lorne and Apollo Bay will face stage three water restrictions from May 1 as water storages plummet in “unprecedented dry conditions”.

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  • DRYING UP: Reservoir drops to 7.9 per cent

    COLAC and district water storages have continued to drop, with the water system’s largest reservoir, the West Gellibrand, at just 7.9-per-cent capacity.

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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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  • CRIMSON TIDE: Salt lake turns orange

    DRY conditions and a salt-loving alga are likely the causes behind Lake Corangamite’s pinkish-orange water, with a salt crust around the foreshore.

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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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