Thread: Colac lake dry

Join the club, Ballarat's been that way for several years now.

While I think of it, Lake Bolac is lower than I've ever seen. Then there is also Pykes Reservoir between Ballarat and Melbourne. And finally Rocklands Reservoir which I've heard isn't that flash, although there is ment to be a pipeline being build to pump (air, I assume) down to Hamilton.

Lake Colac the largest freshwater lake in Victoria? Not by a long way. Lake Hindmarsh is the largest, and has been dry for years.

Thats sad, i wish we could send some of our rain down to you guys

TIM.

Originally Posted by cageyr

Lake Colac the largest freshwater lake in Victoria? Not by a long way. Lake Hindmarsh is the largest, and has been dry for years.

Have a read my friend ....... Lake Colac, Victoria, Australia

Originally Posted by long stroke

Thats sad, i wish we could send some of our rain down to you guys

TIM.

Probably all the irrigation that stuffs it up not the frugal rain?

Originally Posted by long stroke

Thats sad, i wish we could send some of our rain down to you guys

TIM.

Don't you just wish we could get the starship Enterprise to beam some of the floodwaters from Nth West Qld down to Victoria?

What really gets me is the fact that we currently have water crisises or near-crisises in most state capitals, Canberra and many inland towns and yet they are building huge housing developments in the most fertile arrable land and continuing immigration when we can't guarantee water for the population we already have.

Seems the rest of the world is getting flooded with northern Australia . Must the southern part of oz to cop it next ..... oh how that would be nice .

Originally Posted by Fusion

Have a read my friend ....... Lake Colac, Victoria, Australia

Fusion - you should have googled a bit more. Seems he is correct and the site you posted is wrong.

Lake Hindmarsh has national significance and is the largest freshwater lake in Victoria ,. covering some 15600 ha with a volume of around 630000 ML when full

http://www.csiro.au/files/files/ph3x.pdf

Your link: With a surface area of 1,820 hectares, Lake Colac... Almost an order of magnitude smaller.

Of course - if both are dry, it is a moot point.

Sorry to hear that. All the climate models I have seen predict a fairly dire future re rainfall and temperature for SE australia. I hope the predictions are wrong!