Warragamba Dam is set to spill

Australian Community Media

Warragamba Dam, which supplies drinking water to Greater Sydney, is set to spill on April 8, after the rain moves on. Water NSW chief executive Andrew George says it was at 96.3 per cent of capacity on the morning of April 5.

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00:00 We are expecting moderate to heavy rainfall over the water supply catchments in Greater Sydney as a result of this event.

00:06 We are expecting to see Warragamba Dam spill as a result of this event.

00:11 Warragamba is this morning sitting at 96.3% of full supply capacity.

00:16 We require about 90 millimetres of rain to fill Warragamba Dam.

00:21 Based on the current forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology,

00:24 we're expecting 100 to 150 millimetres of rainfall over that catchment as a result of this event.

00:30 That means that Warragamba will move into a spill, likely Monday morning.

00:36 What's important about that is that the spill will occur likely when the rainfall event has moved on.

00:41 So it is very important that the community remain vigilant. They do follow the advice and the warnings of the Bureau of Meteorology.

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