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Queensland water restriction risk as Wivenhoe Dam misses out on rain
Despite hundreds of millimetres of rain falling in parts of southeast Queensland in the last week, the southeast’s largest and most important dam has fallen to levels as low as during the millennium drought.
It’s prompted a warning from authorities that water restrictions could be implemented if Wivenhoe Dam, which provides more than half the water in the state’s southeast, continues to miss out on much-needed rain.
As of Wednesday, Wivenhoe Dam, 80 kilometres northwest of Brisbane, was at 38.3 per cent capacity. While the dam hit that…
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