THE Bathurst region may have enjoyed 57mm of soaking rain last week, but the latest dam level reading has left us with little to celebrate.
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Despite the region receiving almost a month's worth of rain in just three days, the water level at Ben Chifley Dam rose just 0.3 per cent over the week, up from 29.3 per cent capacity on Tuesday, March 3 to 29.6 per cent seven days later.
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That's an increase of about 81 megalitres in storage for a total of 8899ML in the dam.
Inflows from last week's rain had stopped when Tuesday's reading was taken and a red level warning for blue green algae remains in place.
The only good news is that the dam's level has now remained around the 29 per cent mark for the past six weeks after dropping by an average of one per cent a week for the three months prior to that.
Dam level
- December 31: 33.7 per cent
- January 7: 32.9 per cent
- January 14: 31.8 per cent
- January 21: 30.0 per cent
- January 28: 30.6 per cent
- February 4: 29.5 per cent
- February 11: 28.5 per cent
- February 18: 29.6 per cent
- February 25: 29.5 per cent
- March 3: 29.3 per cent
- March 10: 29.6 per cent
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