Michael West’s Blog

OK, so this blog isn’t intended to be solely about Canberra’s weather but it has been pretty interesting lately. We have had a lot of rain here in the past few days and as such Lake Burley Griffin is now full - mainly due to stormwater and other runoff from North Canberra. As such for the first time in 5 years there is talk of opening the floodgates on Scrivener Dam. At present 3 of the sluices are open and allowing flow into the Molonglo River. Word from Christina, who works for SunWater - they have responsiblity for Scrivener Dam - is that the people there are working around the clock monitoring the water levels in the lake and it seems that extra people will be sent to Canberra from the Brisbane office (where she is) to help out. Sadly, Christina is in a different division so won’t get to come down. Above is a photograph I took last night and below are some photos I took this morning on the way to work.

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