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Water worry: Lake Eppalock storage levels explained

Bucket brigade: Fiona Chique (left) last week watched on as her flood-inundated Rochester house was demolished. On Sunday she was among the 100-plus people who, in a sign of protest against the slow response from responsible authorities to flood mitigation measures being announced for Lake Eppalock, formed the “Bucket Brigade’’ at the Knowsley site and relocated water from the almost 100 per cent full lake to an alternate location. She and Lisa Juffs were part of the group that gathered on either side of the spillway that was at the heart of the October 2022 flood event that flowed from the G-MW water storage facility, along the Campaspe River and into Rochester.

Goulburn-Murray Water last week responded to criticism of the almost 100 per cent storage status of Lake Eppalock, amid Rochester community fears that a third major flood in the space of 12 years is only one errant Bureau of Meteorology forecast away from further devastating the already “on its knees’’ township.

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