GWMWater has also released water into Green Lake, with hopes it will be operational again by summer.

The Wimmera basin received 32 millimetres on Monday, which followed more than 40 millimetres in parts of the region last week. 

The Bureau of Meteorology issued a number of flood alerts for the Wimmera over the past few days.

Wimmera Catchment Management Authority chief executive David Brennan said Horsham Rural City Council had removed boards from the Horsham weir to let as much water out of the city as possible.

“It is unknown what will happen, but we are working with all the agencies involved with floods to prepare,” he said.

“There were warnings last week as well and we will continue to plan ahead.”

Horsham’s incident control centre opened on Tuesday afternoon.

GWMWATER water resources manager Andrew Barton said the wet weather meant about 20,000 megalitres should flow into the region’s storage. He said the situation was on par with the inflows the region received last month, which was the largest in three years.

“The biggest winner will be Rocklands Reservoir, with about 10,000 megalitres flowing into there,” he said.

“We haven’t released any water from Rocklands to the Glenelg River since about June, so we’ve been able to bank water in Rocklands, which will keep Toolondo’s prospects alive.”

If Rocklands Reservoir reaches 116,000 megalitres, which is the trigger point, water can be released into Toolondo Reservoir. Rocklands was at 78,970 megalitres last Wednesday.

Dr Barton said if it kept raining, there was every chance the trigger point could be reached.

Toolondo Reservoir spokesman Trevor Holmes said the reservoir’s water level had risen about 75 millimetres in the past few days.

“There is some good water running in there and we received another 10mm on Monday night,” he said.

“We are all pretty happy at the moment, we just need to find some fish now.

“All the indicators show it will keep raining right up to Christmas.”

DR BARTON said water started flowing into Green Lake on Friday.

“Taylors Lake is essentially full, Wartook is full, so anything that falls in that part of the world, we want to capitalise on as much as we can and get some water into Green Lake,” he said.

Green Lake Action Group spokesman Russell Peucker said it was fantastic to see water going into the lake.

“Its looking excellent, we have good natural inflows and water being released into the lake as well,” he said.

“The whole country side is really wet.

“Wartook is virtually overflowing, with more flows predicted and there is every chance we will get a good top up into the lake.

“At this rate it should be operational for summer.”

Mr Peucker said he estimated more than a hundred megalitres was flowing into the lake each day.

“Hopefully water will continue to be released until it is full,” he said.

“The natural water will be running in for a few more days yet.

“We are finally getting water running down Bungalally and the lower Burnt Creek too.

“IT’s made the frogs very happen.”

HORSHAM Rural City Council removed the boards from the city’s weir following flood warnings. 

Dimboola and Jeparit are also set for more water as large flows continue along the Wimmera River.

Mr Brennan said it was very wet right across the catchment.

”We’ve seen some fairly good flows generating from the upper catchment down the Wimmera River,” he said.

“We are likely to see continuation of those flows.”

Mr Brennan said all the region’s creeks and rivers were flowing.

“This is the first time in a number of years that our small creeks have flowed,” he said.

“We are seeing water in the lower Burnt Creek and the lower portion of the Mackenzie River.”

DR BARTON said Lake Lonsdale was also continuing to build up.

“We are starting to get to a level where it will be usable heading into summer,” he said.

Lake Lonsdale Action Group president Ray Howard said the lake was looking good.

“Water is up to the boat ramp now, we hope to just keep getting the rain,” he said.

“The last lot of rain we had will boost it up a bit.”

Mr Howard said he hoped the lake would be operational by summer.

“There should be enough water in it for a bit of activities,” he said.

“If the yabbies get going, which we aren’t sure if they will because it’s been dry for a couple of years now, but if they do, it will boost the town.

“There will be no fish for another year or two though.”

Mr Howard said the lake should be a very popular spot for people again this summer.​