This line item represents the volume of water held in storages that is used to provide water for licenced entitlements. These storages provided water for licenced allocations held by ACTEW for urban water supply. The volume reported for this line item includes the volume of dead storage.
Specific details of each storage used for this line item are provided in the table below.
Volume of water held in entitlement system storages in the Canberra region
|
Storage reservoir |
Total capacity (ML) |
Dead storage volume (ML) |
Volume (ML) |
Volume (ML) |
Percentage full at end of reporting period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Googong Reservoir |
119,409 |
1,674 |
56,919 |
51,370 |
48% |
|
Cotter Reservoir |
3,847 |
9 |
3,847 |
2,992 |
100% |
|
Bendora Reservoir |
11,446 |
96 |
9,176 |
8,033 |
80% |
|
Corin Reservoir |
70,787 |
110 |
42,814 |
25,439 |
60% |
|
Total |
205,489 |
1,889 |
112,756 |
87,834 |
55% |
Bureau of Meteorology: Water Storages, Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS).
Bureau of Meteorology.
Storage volume was measured at the start and end of the reporting period by using gauged water level height(s) (metres above Australian Height Datum [mAHD]) for individual storages. The height measurement was converted to a volume using the storage rating table(s) provided by the managing authority/operator.
The storage volume of individual storages was aggregated to present the total volume for the line item.
Ungraded.
National Water Account 2010
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