Last updated: April 2026 | Author: Angus Hughson, Big Ditch Dam Building Company
Northern NSW marijuana capital gets dry mouth
Mullumbimby Council have announced that if there is no rainfall in the Wilsons Creek catchment in the following week, Level 1 water constraints will be implemented in Mullumbimby.
This follows a severe decline last week in the water feeding the Laverty’s Void Dam on Wilsons Creek which provides Mullumbimby’s water.
The stream flow has dropped by 2 megalitres in one week. ‘Two weeks earlier just under four megalitres a day was being fed into the weir and this week it is hovering above one megalitre a day which is a sudden and also significant decline
Council claim that with little to no rain forecast for the coming week, Mullumbimby locals should prepare for Level 1 limitations which include: no watering of established yards using sprinklers or hoses; watering of gardens allowed between 6am– 10am and also 3pm– 7pm; all pipes have to be fitted with on/off nozzles; and also, topping up of swimming pools 6am– 10am and 3pm– 7pm.
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