Management of Menindee Lakes 2011-2012 Issue 3 – 10 February 2012

13-Feb-2012

Heavy rainfall and flooding in northern NSW and Queensland has triggered pre-releases from the Menindee Lakes system for the third time in two years. With the Menindee lakes storage levels already increasing as a result of high flows earlier this summer, there is limited capacity to manage the impending additional flow.

As a result, the NSW Office of Water and State Water Corporation began flood pre-release operations on Thursday 2 February 2012, increasing releases from 15,000 megalitres per day to a target of 29,000 megalitres per day by Tuesday 14 February...click here...