Media Releases
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December 2008
- Applications Open for $5 Million Community Grants Program
- Deluge Delivers More Than 12 Days of Water
- Storages Feel Effect of Weekend Rains
- Progress Continues on Sugarloaf Pipeline
- Comment on Rainfall and Storage Levels
- Storages Resume Decline
- Compensation Offers Start for Landowners
- Melbourne Water Goes to Market for Renewable Energy
- Statement on Water Leak
- Major Water Works on Greensborough Hwy
- Consistent Rain Helps Runoff, Water Use
- Community Session Held in Moorabool
- First Tunnel Complete
- Disappointing Spring Shows Need to Target 155 in Summer
November 2008
- Rain Pushes Storages Up and Water Use Down
- Pipeline Buys 800ha Conservation Area
- Comment on Rainfall and Storage Levels
- Melbourne Targets 155 Litres Per Day
- Protecting Melbourne’s Catchments From Fire
- Water for Sugarloaf Pipeline Project
- Thomson Reservoir Gears Up for a Dry Summer
- Storage Levels Down Despite Good Rain
- Storages Decline Slightly
- Statement on Water Act Breach
- First Pipes Laid for Sugarloaf Pipeline
- Storages Decline Despite Wet Weather
- Local Group Formed to Manage Pipeline Traffic
October 2008
- Dry October Disappointing for Reservoirs
- Storages Drop Amid Poor Rainfall
- Storages Continue Decline
- Statement From Cheryl Batagol, Chairman, Melbourne Water
- Cultural Heritage Part of Pipeline Design
- Bidding for a Cleaner Catchment
- Storages Decline Slightly to 34.4%
- $5m Grants Committee Selected
- Talent on Tap in Water Week Idol
- Shorter Showers Urged as Storages Flatline
- Static Storages Despite Good Rain
- Landowners Invited to Apply for Waterway Grants
- Dry End to a Dry Month