The fine folks at watercare have excellent real time data on their water storage lakes but i wanted to see all of the water levels at the same time on the same page so i made this website.
What is live storage of a dam.
Where do you get the data from.
To the still of lowest sluice.
The auckland region is still feeling the effects of a severe drought which took hold in 2019 and saw our total water storage all our dams combined drop to the mid 40 per cent mark.
Total rainfall since 01 jun.
Water captured during the wet season can be stored for use during the dry season.
Dams create reservoirs that supply water for uses including industrial municipal and agricultural.
Watercare are the full copyright holders of the data however they allow.
At 100 of its live capacity of 301 610 million litres compared to 100 at the same time last year.
Live storage it is the difference between gross storage and dead storage it is amount of water available from the f r l.
In other words the volume of water that cannot be released from a dam unless the dam wall bursts.
Corin dam is a water storage dam of australia which has a capacity of 19 9 10 9 gal.
Dam dead storage is the volume of water which is below the level of the spillway or other outlet.
While the dams vary in size they all rely entirely on rainfall to replenish.
Singh said the live storage of the dam will last till about the end of february after which the ssnnl has allowed us to use the dead storage water which will enable villages and towns to receive their drinking water.
48 rise in storage since 05 aug.
Data as on 28 sep.
The dam which is at a level of 111 37 metres as on tuesday of live storage has a dead storage of one million acre feet 1 maf.
First date of overflow this season.
A 10th dam hays creek dam in papakura will be reconnected to the network in summer 2020 21.
I get the data from the watercare website.
Who owns the data.
The reservoir is 1 of 4 that provides drinking water to pune city.