Victoria’s storages are 72.0% full (8,054 GL of 11,191 GL), up 0.1 points in a week; a year ago the same 61 storages were 63.8% full.
63 storages reporting to the Bureau of Meteorology, latest reading 2026-09-29 09:00. Refreshed every 30 minutes.
This page brings together the Victorian storages that the Bureau of Meteorology publishes: Melbourne’s ten major reservoirs, the irrigation lakes of the north, and the Gippsland, western and Grampians storages. Rows give the volume the Bureau counts as accessible, the percentage of capacity, the surface level in metres and the week’s change, and the lakes that anglers can fish link to their page on this site.
Percentage full is the Bureau’s accessible volume divided by the accessible capacity, as on its storage dashboard, so it can differ by a point or two from the operator’s daily report, which is the official figure. Year ago is the same storage on the same date last year. Dams with a fishing page link to it.
| Storage | Full | Volume (ML) | Capacity (ML) | 7 days | Year ago | Updated | Fishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomson ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 67.7% | 723,087 | 1,068,000 | −0.4 pts | 75.6% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Cardinia ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 64.3% | 184,501 | 286,911 | +0.1 pts | 69.6% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Upper Yarra ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 68.4% | 137,111 | 200,579 | +2.0 pts | 63.9% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Sugarloaf ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 83.0% | 79,872 | 96,253 | +0.2 pts | 65.4% | 27 Sept | Sugarloaf Reservoir fishing report |
| Silvan ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 88.8% | 35,897 | 40,445 | +0.5 pts | 87.2% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Tarago ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 97.7% | 36,704 | 37,576 | +1.2 pts | 88.8% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Yan Yean ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 73.6% | 22,288 | 30,266 | 0.0 pts | 69.5% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Greenvale ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 92.7% | 24,891 | 26,839 | +0.9 pts | 84.0% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Maroondah ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 99.7% | 22,119 | 22,179 | +0.4 pts | 60.0% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| O'Shannassy ReservoirMelbourne water supply (Melbourne Water) | 83.9% | 2,619 | 3,123 | −5.5 pts | 101.9% | 27 Sept | No public fishing |
| Dartmouth DamGoulburn-Murray Water | 77.0% | 2,912,869 | 3,785,232 | +0.3 pts | 71.0% | 28 Sept | Lake Dartmouth fishing report |
| Lake EildonGoulburn-Murray Water | 60.5% | 1,965,425 | 3,249,914 | +0.2 pts | 55.7% | 28 Sept | Lake Eildon fishing report |
| Waranga BasinGoulburn-Murray Water | 89.4% | 273,453 | 305,825 | −3.5 pts | 42.1% | 28 Sept | Waranga Basin fishing report |
| Lake EppalockGoulburn-Murray Water | 97.3% | 295,447 | 303,627 | −1.6 pts | 51.5% | 28 Sept | Lake Eppalock fishing report |
| Cairn Curran ReservoirGoulburn-Murray Water | 97.0% | 138,129 | 142,390 | +0.1 pts | 37.8% | 28 Sept | Cairn Curran Reservoir fishing report |
| Yarrawonga WeirGoulburn-Murray Water | 91.5% | 87,100 | 95,174 | +1.2 pts | 98.7% | 28 Sept | Lake Mulwala fishing report |
| Tullaroop ReservoirGoulburn-Murray Water | 100.7% above capacity | 66,387 | 65,950 | −0.2 pts | 38.8% | 28 Sept | Tullaroop Reservoir fishing report |
| Lake NillahcootieGoulburn-Murray Water | 100.0% above capacity | 39,969 | 39,961 | −0.2 pts | 73.3% | 28 Sept | Lake Nillahcootie fishing report |
| Greens LakeGoulburn-Murray Water | 23.9% | 6,688 | 27,989 | −0.4 pts | 29.5% | 28 Sept | Greens Lake fishing report |
| Goulburn WeirGoulburn-Murray Water | 98.4% | 22,651 | 23,026 | +2.4 pts | 94.7% | 28 Sept | Lake Nagambie fishing report |
| Torrumbarry WeirGoulburn-Murray Water | 100.0% above capacity | 21,601 | 21,594 | 0.0 pts | 100.0% | 28 Sept | — |
| Lake BuffaloGoulburn-Murray Water | 81.4% | 16,057 | 19,718 | +28.1 pts | 77.1% | 28 Sept | Lake Buffalo fishing report |
| Lake William HovellGoulburn-Murray Water | 99.7% | 12,717 | 12,750 | −0.9 pts | 99.6% | 28 Sept | Lake William Hovell fishing report |
| Laanecoorie ReservoirGoulburn-Murray Water | 98.9% | 7,415 | 7,500 | +7.9 pts | 35.1% | 28 Sept | Laanecoorie Reservoir fishing report |
| Newlyn ReservoirGoulburn-Murray Water | 99.9% | 2,898 | 2,902 | −0.7 pts | 30.8% | 28 Sept | Newlyn Reservoir fishing report |
| Rocklands ReservoirGWMWater | 41.2% | 120,714 | 293,000 | +0.3 pts | 34.2% | 29 Sept | Rocklands Reservoir fishing report |
| Lake BellfieldGWMWater | 89.2% | 69,217 | 77,560 | +0.0 pts | 76.8% | 29 Sept | Lake Bellfield fishing report |
| Lake LonsdaleGWMWater | 55.8% | 28,608 | 51,300 | −0.2 pts | 24.8% | 29 Sept | — |
| Toolondo ReservoirGWMWater | 22.6% | 11,415 | 50,530 | +0.3 pts | 31.9% | 29 Sept | Lake Toolondo fishing report |
| Wartook ReservoirGWMWater | 79.1% | 20,813 | 26,300 | +0.0 pts | 41.7% | 29 Sept | Lake Wartook fishing report |
| Taylors LakeGWMWater | 97.0% | 23,350 | 24,060 | +0.1 pts | 66.8% | 29 Sept | Taylors Lake fishing report |
| Lake FyansGWMWater | 97.0% | 16,934 | 17,450 | −0.1 pts | 76.2% | 29 Sept | Lake Fyans fishing report |
| Green Lake (Horsham)GWMWater | 82.2% | 4,398 | 5,350 | +0.0 pts | 47.3% | 29 Sept | — |
| Moora Moora ReservoirGWMWater | 93.0% | 4,928 | 5,300 | −0.6 pts | 56.6% | 29 Sept | — |
| Wurdee Boluc ReservoirBarwon Water | 86.1% | 32,774 | 38,056 | +0.1 pts | 42.4% | 27 Sept | — |
| West Barwon ReservoirBarwon Water | 69.9% | 15,029 | 21,504 | −3.5 pts | 30.8% | 27 Sept | — |
| Bostock ReservoirBarwon Water | 64.6% | 4,751 | 7,360 | −1.7 pts | 8.9% | 27 Sept | — |
| Upper Stony Creek Reservoir No. 3Barwon Water | 49.3% | 1,826 | 3,706 | +0.0 pts | 40.8% | 27 Sept | — |
| Upper Stony Creek Reservoir No. 1Barwon Water | 56.2% | 1,933 | 3,443 | +0.0 pts | 67.0% | 27 Sept | — |
| Upper Stony Creek Reservoir No. 2Barwon Water | 83.0% | 1,945 | 2,345 | +4.9 pts | 76.8% | 27 Sept | — |
| Korweinguboora ReservoirBarwon Water | 88.0% | 2,048 | 2,327 | −2.5 pts | 18.9% | 27 Sept | — |
| West Gellibrand ReservoirBarwon Water | 100.1% above capacity | 1,860 | 1,859 | 0.0 pts | 100.1% | 27 Sept | — |
| Upper Coliban ReservoirColiban Water | 100.0% above capacity | 37,680 | 37,680 | −0.1 pts | 61.7% | 25 Sept | Upper Coliban Reservoir fishing report |
| Lauriston ReservoirColiban Water | 96.4% | 19,070 | 19,790 | +0.5 pts | 88.8% | 25 Sept | Lauriston Reservoir fishing report |
| Malmsbury ReservoirColiban Water | 100.1% above capacity | 12,044 | 12,034 | −1.0 pts | 29.0% | 27 Sept | Malmsbury Reservoir fishing report |
| Sandhurst ReservoirColiban Water | 71.9% | 1,730 | 2,405 | −10.6 pts | 90.8% | 25 Sept | — |
| Spring Gully ReservoirColiban Water | 70.4% | 1,180 | 1,676 | — | 61.8% | 24 Sept | — |
| Barkers Creek ReservoirColiban Water | 102.4% above capacity | 1,713 | 1,673 | 0.0 pts | 38.6% | 25 Sept | Barkers Creek Reservoir fishing report |
| McCay ReservoirColiban Water | 89.3% | 1,207 | 1,351 | −3.6 pts | 61.9% | 25 Sept | — |
| Blue Rock LakeSouthern Rural Water | 86.9% | 171,760 | 197,575 | +0.2 pts | 76.2% | 28 Sept | Blue Rock Lake fishing report |
| Lake GlenmaggieSouthern Rural Water | 95.8% | 165,470 | 172,771 | −1.7 pts | 97.9% | 28 Sept | Lake Glenmaggie fishing report |
| Merrimu ReservoirSouthern Rural Water | 85.3% | 27,442 | 32,181 | −0.5 pts | 67.8% | 28 Sept | — |
| Rosslynne ReservoirSouthern Rural Water | 60.7% | 15,309 | 25,218 | −0.0 pts | 65.3% | 28 Sept | — |
| Pykes Creek ReservoirSouthern Rural Water | 99.9% | 20,327 | 20,349 | −0.1 pts | 64.7% | 28 Sept | Pykes Creek Reservoir fishing report |
| Melton ReservoirSouthern Rural Water | 80.3% | 11,398 | 14,202 | +1.3 pts | 18.7% | 28 Sept | Melton Reservoir fishing report |
| Lake NarracanSouthern Rural Water | 77.7% | 5,581 | 7,180 | +0.1 pts | 76.9% | 28 Sept | — |
| Lal Lal ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 65.8% | 38,857 | 59,056 | +0.3 pts | — | 28 Sept | — |
| White Swan ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 46.1% | 6,403 | 13,880 | −0.5 pts | 43.1% | 28 Sept | — |
| Moorabool ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 64.8% | 4,339 | 6,691 | +1.1 pts | 28.9% | 28 Sept | — |
| Gong Gong ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 119.2% above capacity | 1,912 | 1,605 | −0.5 pts | — | 28 Sept | — |
| Evansford ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 100.4% above capacity | 1,308 | 1,303 | −0.5 pts | 78.3% | 28 Sept | — |
| Wilsons ReservoirCentral Highlands Water | 101.5% above capacity | 1,026 | 1,011 | +0.1 pts | 21.4% | 28 Sept | — |
| Devilbend ReservoirOther storages | 52.8% | 7,707 | 14,600 | −0.2 pts | 53.3% | 27 Sept | Devilbend Reservoir fishing report |
90% and over60–90%30–60%under 30%no capacity published
Combined accessible volume of the 63 storages with a published capacity, as a percentage of their combined capacity, one value a day.
Melbourne Water reports the city’s ten major reservoirs, which range from O’Shannassy, at about 3 billion litres, to the Thomson, at 1,068 billion. Goulburn-Murray Water runs northern Victoria’s storages by system, Murray, Ovens, Broken, Goulburn, Campaspe, Loddon and Bullarook Creek, including Lake Eildon, Lake Eppalock and Cairn Curran, and its table also carries Dartmouth and Hume, which the Murray–Darling Basin Authority counts among the main storages of the River Murray system. Southern Rural Water covers Blue Rock Lake, Lake Glenmaggie and Lake Narracan in Gippsland and the Melton, Merrimu, Pykes Creek and Rosslynne reservoirs west of Melbourne. GWMWater manages the Grampians storages, among them Rocklands, Lake Bellfield, Lake Fyans, Lake Wartook and Taylors Lake, and regional corporations such as Barwon Water, Central Highlands Water, Coliban Water and North East Water report their town reservoirs.
Melbourne Water expresses the city’s total as a share of the combined capacity of its ten major reservoirs, 1,812 gigalitres since July 2010, because the reservoirs differ so much in size that a single one says little. The Thomson makes up about 60 per cent of that capacity, so it largely sets the headline figure; filling O’Shannassy completely would equal only 0.3 per cent of the Thomson. When the near-empty Thomson was added to the system in July 1984, Melbourne’s total fell from 65 to 26 per cent overnight, and Melbourne Water records it as full only in 1992, 1993, 1996 and 2022. Readings are taken at 8 am and published at about 2 to 3 pm on weekdays and 4 to 5 pm on weekends and public holidays. Because they are checked against manual readings, figures are sometimes adjusted, usually within the same week.
The Bureau and Melbourne Water both report accessible volume, so for the city the numbers differ mainly through timing and rounding. Melbourne Water adds that a reservoir occasionally goes over 100 per cent, holding more than the operating capacity it reports against, much as a bottle can be filled past its labelled volume. Elsewhere the gap can be wider. According to the Bureau, Goulburn-Murray Water, Southern Rural Water and GWMWater publish volumes that include dead storage, while the Bureau excludes it, and capacities are sometimes assessed differently: the Bureau gives 17,450 megalitres as the accessible capacity of Lake Fyans, where GWMWater has used 18,460. At Lal Lal Reservoir, Central Highlands Water publishes only its 59.9 per cent share of the storage, while the Bureau shows the whole accessible volume, so that pair of figures can look far apart.
Melbourne’s supply reservoirs are protected catchments. Melbourne Water allows no entry to the protected catchments of Cardinia, Greenvale, Maroondah, O’Shannassy, Silvan, Upper Yarra and Yan Yean, or to the inner catchments of the Thomson and Tarago, and visitors are limited to parks, picnic areas and walking tracks around some of them. Sugarloaf is the one listed with fishing: limited lure-based fishing from the shore in designated areas, without live bait, and no kayaking or entering the water. The fishing storages are the irrigation and regional lakes. Goulburn-Murray Water says many of its lakes, dams and reservoirs can be fished all year; GWMWater describes Lake Toolondo as known for its trout and Taylors Lake as popular for fishing near Horsham; and the Victorian Fisheries Authority stocks lakes and rivers with trout and native fish. A Victorian Recreational Fishing Licence is required unless you are exempt.
Goulburn-Murray Water publishes interactive water level maps for Lake Eildon and Lake Eppalock showing the likely shoreline at different storage levels, together with boat ramps, toilets, picnic tables and barbecues, so you can see where the edge will be before towing a boat. It warns that the mapped water extent gives no indication of depth, that hazards sit above and below the surface at every level, and that ramp signage should be read on arrival; when in doubt about water levels and submerged hazards, it advises slowing to 5 knots or less. A fast-falling lake exposes standing timber and shallow points that hold fish, but the same timber is what strikes an outboard leg in poor light.
Each operator reports on its own timetable, so compare the dates before reading two storages against each other. Southern Rural Water publishes a five-day snapshot with a rising or falling marker; GWMWater collects its levels weekly, from Thursday to Wednesday, and uploads them on Wednesday afternoon; and Goulburn-Murray Water updates its tables daily with the weekly change and last year’s figure alongside. The Bureau notes that its own latest data has usually been observed yesterday or the day before, and it lists storages whose data is delayed on its data supply page.
Each of Melbourne’s ten major reservoirs has its own row, taken from the Bureau of Meteorology’s record. Melbourne Water publishes the city total each afternoon from readings taken at 8 am.
The table covers the Bureau’s whole list for Victoria, Melbourne’s reservoirs and the regional lakes alike. When comparing them, remember that large storages such as Dartmouth and Eildon hold far more water than small reservoirs at the same percentage.
Mostly no: Melbourne Water keeps its supply catchments closed. Sugarloaf Reservoir allows limited lure-based fishing from the shore in designated areas, without live bait. Goulburn-Murray Water lakes such as Eildon and Eppalock, and GWMWater’s Grampians lakes, are open to anglers.
Both Melbourne Water and the Bureau report accessible volume, so the differences come mostly from report timing and rounding. Melbourne Water also adjusts some figures after manual checks, usually within the same week.
The Water Act 2007 requires Melbourne Water, Goulburn-Murray Water, Southern Rural Water, GWMWater and the regional corporations to provide their data to the Bureau of Meteorology. The table shows the Bureau’s standardised version of it.
Data: Bureau of Meteorology, Water Data Online and the Australian Water Storages dataset, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY; volumes supplied by © Melbourne Water, © Goulburn-Murray Water, © GWMWater, © Barwon Water, © Coliban Water, © Southern Rural Water, © Central Highlands Water. Where the Bureau lists no capacity, or its capacity and volume are on different bases, a row shows the volume only. Text by Pablo Ruiz Quintero.
The facts on this page were checked against these pages, from the agencies, park services and operators that manage the water on 28 September 2026; anything we could not verify was taken out. Written by Pablo Ruiz Quintero. Errors are published in the verification log.