NSW dam levels soar as Sydney water restrictions remain in place | p_hannam
Sydney's dam levels have jumped almost two-thirds in less than a week, with the recent heavy rains delivering more than a year's worth of water demand or as much as eight years of output from the city's desalination plant.it had only introduced level-2 water restrictionsLake Burragorang, behind Warragamba dam, is now almost 70 per cent full after nearing 40 per cent just days ago.
. Volume in the dams surged about 736 billion litres over the five days, or far more than the 566 billion litres of drinking water supplied by SydneyWater during the 2018-19 fiscal year.For Warragamba, which makes up about 80 per cent of Sydney's storage, the level has risen to 69.3 per cent full. While less than the big flows over the weekend, inflows over the past 24 hours amounted to a gain of 8 percentage points - or more than 13 per cent - in dam levels from the previous day.
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