Reservoir · Tasmania · Australia · BOM Water Data Online
Woods Lake
45.0% full
Capacity
63.9 hm³
Volume stored
29 hm³
Coordinates
42.081°S, 147.003°E
Last updated
2026-10-26
Current fill
45.0%vs 7 days ago
+1.7 ppgaining
vs 1 year ago
+0.4 ppyear-over-year
7-day trend
↑rising
Drought context
Storage vs October average
92%of normal
45.0% full on 2026-10-26, against an average of 48.9% for October across 4 years of readings (-3.9 points).
Rain over the last three months · 11 October 2026
Extremely dry
In the three months to 11 October 2026 the area around Woods Lake had extremely little rain for the season, a shortfall seen about one year in forty. Rainfall compared with the long-run record for the same season at this point (Copernicus Global Drought Observatory, SPI-3 index −2.30). Rain, not storage. Australia drought figures →
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology — Water Data Online (KiWIS) — daily mean storage volume, quality-controlled. Capacity from the BOM Water Storages ArcGIS layer (total design capacity in ML). Last reading: 2026-10-26.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 42.081°S, 147.003°E · Open in Google Maps
About Woods Lake
As of October 26, 2026, Woods Lake is filled to 45.0% of its total capacity, holding 28.76 hm³ of water out of a maximum 63.9 hm³. At this level the reservoir is within its normal operating range. Of that total, 43.5 hm³ is usable (live) storage.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has risen by 1.7 percentage points, and it sits close to where it was a year earlier.
Across the readings we hold for Woods Lake — 1095 data points between October 28, 2023 and October 26, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 33.9% (March 5, 2024) to a high of 61.1% (September 30, 2024). On average the reservoir is fullest around October and at its lowest around February.
It is operated by BOM primarily for water supply. It is at 42.081°S, 147.003°E.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 45.0% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 28.76 hm³
- Total capacity
- 63.9 hm³
- Usable capacity
- 43.5 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▲ 1.7 pp
- Year-on-year
- ▲ 0.4 pp
- Primary use
- Water supply
- Operator
- BOM
- Coordinates
- 42.081°S, 147.003°E
- Last updated
- October 26, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | 45.0% | 28.76 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 44.8% | 28.58 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 44.2% | 28.23 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 44.1% | 28.14 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 43.9% | 28.03 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 43.7% | 27.92 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 43.5% | 27.77 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 43.3% | 27.63 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 43.0% | 27.47 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 42.7% | 27.29 |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 42.5% | 27.13 |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 42.3% | 26.99 |