The city’s average daily consumption in sitting at about 8ML a day.

A Goulburn Mulwaree Council spokesperson said the current storage levels of the dams are: Pejar 100 per cent, Sooley 86pc, and Rossi Weir 100pc, which means the city’s total storage is sitting at 95pc capacity.

The spokepserson said evaporation had not impacted that much on total storage since summer began, with some good rainfall boosting the dams. 

“Evaporation has had no more effect than usual, rainfall received throughout summer has supported the storage,” the spokesperson said. 

Goulburn will never again reach the low storages of 2005, when Pejar Dam resembled a mud-caked moon crater and the city’s total storage stood at 24.4 per cent, of which 12pc was unusable (essentially meaning the city had only 12pc water storage). 

The completion of the Highlands Source Pipeline (HSP), which stretches from our water supply to the Wingecarribee Reservoir, some 80km to the north-east will top up the city up in the advent of any further drought.

But the pipeline has not been relied upon much and the levy on residents for it was dropped in July 2016 as part of 2016/17 budget.

“When storage levels are high as they are currently the HSP is used continually at nominal levels to ensure it is operational and water doesn’t stagnate in the line,” the spokesperson said. 

The council is still grappling with high manganese levels in the supply.

“We are continuing to treat for higher than usual manganese levels, as well as flushing lines in affected areas, but we are getting this under control,” the spokesperson said.