Queensland Rains

Good, but SO uneven. At any event, today and tomorrow should be excellent for them.

Brisbane's hinterland dams received only light rain, but their combined levels of about 28 per cent are expected to be boosted through the week.

There were heavy falls over the dams late yesterday, but nothing like the huge 205mm that fell on Redlands' Leslie Harrison Dam, east of Brisbane, between 9am Saturday and 1pm yesterday. The small Enoggera Dam in the city's northwest recorded 92mm over the same period.

A round-up of 70 SEQwater and SunWater dams across Queensland shows that in the northeast, northwest and central Queensland many storages are full, with dams up an overall 26 per cent thanks to the wet summer.

But the situation remains dire in the southeast corner, the far southwest and the Burnett.

Atkinson Dam in the southeast's Lockyer Valley is empty and the nearby Lake Dyer on 1 per cent, the Bjelke-Petersen near Murgon is on 4 per cent and Boondooma inland from Gladstone has 13 per cent.

In the Warrill Valley, Moogerah has crept up to 17 per cent after years of single-digit rainfall, while Wuruma Dam in the Upper Burnett is still hovering on 1 per cent.

Further north, the Burdekin Falls Dam continues to spill, with more than six million megalitres pouring over the dam crest since December 28 enough to fill Brisbane's Wivenhoe more than five times.

"Overall, this is the best wet season Queensland has seen in many years and it has lifted the total volume of water stored in SunWater's dams and weirs from 43 per cent in November to a very healthy 69 per cent," Water Minister Craig Wallace said.

Rain in Brisbane dam catchments in the 24 hours to 9am yesterday included KiIcoy 15, Dayboro 17, Maleny 20 and Obi Obi 30. On the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore recorded 74, Pomona 66 and Cooran 94.