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Roads to Halls Gap were shut for 24 hours on Tuesday following heavy rainfall across the Grampians region that saw the town cut off from Stawell and Ararat.
While the south road to Dunkeld remained accessible, the region experienced double the average rainfall for the month of September.
Roads in the Grampians National Park remained closed however, although access to area on the Halls Gap-Ararat and Halls Gap-Stawell roads, is now available.
The Bureau of Meteorology recorded 88 millimetres of rain at Mount William in 48 hours from Tuesday through to 9am Thursday.
It brought the total for Mount William to 210 millimetres for September – more than double the monthly average.
Northern Grampians Shire councillors and South West Ward representative Jason Hosemans said Halls Gap had managed to escape any major damage to the town.
“It is an amazing amount of water, it is very wet and streams are following,” he said.
“it did cause a bit of hassle getting kids home from school yesterday because buses could not get through.
“We did manage to get them home though and they had the day off school on Thursday as well.”
Cr Hosemans said the rain during the week would not affect businesses two much as it was traditionally a quiet time for tourism.
“Tourists obviously can’t get in, but it is during the week,” he said.
“The busiest holiday time will be the school holidays coming so it might have more impact then.
“But as long as roads stay open it won’t affect tourism, certainly there are waterfalls running everywhere, which is impressive.
“It is looking pretty spectacular and from a tourism aspect that will be okay.”
Lake Fyans and Lake Lonsdale have both benefited from the rainfall as well.
Mr Hosemans said Lake Fyans was about 80 per cent full and both would provide valuable recreation opportunities during the summer.
“That is going to be amazing, there will be an awful lot of happy people around with the water in the lakes,” he said.