14 January 1970
Level of dam falling slowly
Heavy storms at the weekend had no effect on the level of Burrendong Dam.
A Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission official said the level of the dam had continued to drop during the weekend and was still dropping slightly.
Since last Thursday it had dropped from 18 feet 10 inches above the spillway to 18 feet six inches.
The official said about one inch of rain had fallen at the dam in three storms over the weekend.
He said the outflow of the dam was considerably more than the inflow at present.
He said 650 cubic feet a second was being discharged from the dam through the valves at the base of the dam wall.
The spillway gates were closed.
The dam reached a record level last November when the Macquarie and Cudgegong Rivers, which feed the dam, flooded.
The water level at the dam rose to 21 feet 9 inches above the spillway.
The W.C. and I.C. official said the discharge of 650 cusecs would be maintained until the Commission’s head office ordered a change.
The discharge was designed to meet the requirements downstream.
During the winter months the normal discharge from the dam is only 20 cusecs1
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