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Council may have to pump water from Wivenhoe<br />
Residents urged to minimise water use<br />
The Toowoomba Region faces the prospect of<br />
having to pump water from Wivenhoe Dam for the<br />
first time if adequate rain does not soon fall.<br />
The Toowoomba Regional Council established<br />
a pump station at Wivenhoe Dam about 2010, but<br />
apart from short pumping runs for testing and<br />
maintenance, it has not yet supplied water for the<br />
region’s regular water needs.<br />
This followed a failed attempt by the previous<br />
Toowoomba City Council to recycle water for human<br />
consumption.<br />
The council has been told that its three dams,<br />
Cressbrook, Perseverance and Cooby were at just<br />
41.9 per cent useable capacity in November.<br />
The council has a policy that when its water<br />
reserves in the dams drop to 40 per cent, a pumping<br />
program from Wivenhoe Dam on the Brisbane River<br />
starts.<br />
In November, Cressbrook Dam was at 45.7 per<br />
cent useable capacity, Perseverance Dam was at 33.1<br />
per cent capacity, and Cooby Dam was at 38.6 per<br />
cent useable capacity, a total useable capacity of 41.9<br />
per cent.<br />
Without substantial rainfall, the council expects to<br />
reach the dam storage level to start pumping from<br />
Wivenhoe Dam by early to mid-2019.<br />
All residents are being urged to minimise water<br />
usage to preserve existing supplies.<br />
Private bore water users are also requested<br />
to reduce usage where possible as aquifer levels<br />
throughout the region are stressed.<br />
Toowoomba has a four tier system of water<br />
restrictions - permanent conservation measures,<br />
medium level, high level, and extreme level<br />
restrictions.<br />
Each level is triggered when a water supply falls to<br />
a certain capacity.<br />
Towns taking water from the Toowoomba bulk<br />
supply are on permanent conservation measures<br />
where there are minor restrictions.<br />
However, towns which take water from bores<br />
to the south and southwest of Toowoomba are on<br />
medium level restrictions.<br />
Toowoomba Regional Council water intake at Wivenhoe Dam for its pump station.<br />
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