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Region | Project | Potential Return (ML) |
Goulburn-Broken | Water for Rivers Mokoan Project.[1] | 50,200 |
| Furtureflow Shepparton project.[2] | 25,000 |
| Five year on-farm irrigation efficiency project by a consortium led by the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.[3] | 100,000 |
Loddon | CSIRO pilot study in the Torumbarry Irrigation Area (TIA) to investigate the potential for targeted investment in reconfiguration and water purchases.[4] | 60,000 |
Lower Darling | Darling Anabranch Pipeline – construction of a stock and domestic water pipeline, the removal of instream structures from within the anabranch and the management of flows from Lake Cawndilla.[5] | 47,000 |
Murray | Structural and engineering works at Hattah Lakes.[6] | 371,300 |
| A group of 30 irrigators proposing to shut down their channel system.[7] | 40,000 |
| Project of strategic infrastructure and a focussed watering program of Lindsay Island.[8] | 277,500 |
| Structural and engineering works at Gunbower Forest.[9] | 185,000 |
| Sub-system retirement package including bulk water purchase and the retirement of infrastructure.[10] | 25,000 |
| Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operations Program (PIIOP) – combing strategic purchase and channel retirement.[11] | 167,000 |
| On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program – 141 projects of on-farm irrigation.[12] | 30,000 |
Murrumbidgee | Water for Rivers are looking at recovering water from the better management of the Murrumbidgee, partly through on-farm efficiencies and the more efficient delivery of water to users.[13] | 40,000- |
| The development of Barren Box Swamp as water and wetland storage, for the purpose of balancing operational water demands.[14] | 20,000 |
| Proposal from a group of farming families to decommission 90 kilometres of channel that serviced 67,000 hectares.[15] | 43,000 |
| Reconstruction of channelised section of the Mirrool Creek.[16] | 6,000 |
| The establishment of a current generation pressurised and piped stock and domestic system (including pump stations, water storages and new supply points) at Wah Wah channel.[17] | 10,000 |
| The planning, design and implementation of a new water supply to the Lake Wyangan catchment.[18] | 6,000 |
| Sale and full control of 84,000 hectares within the Lower Murrumbidgee Icon Site (Nimmie-Caira), including full control of channel and floodplain infrastructure.[19] | 160,000- |
Region | Project | Potential Return (ML) |
Wimmera-Avoca | Proposal to close the Wimmera Irrigation System in preference to modernisation or rationalisation of water systems in the area.[20] | 28,000 |
| Northern Wimmera – Mallee Pipeline project.[21] | 75,000 |
[1] New South Wales Farmers Association, Submission 485, p. 18.
[2] Northern Victorian Irrigators, Submission 555, p. 3.
[3] United Dairy Farmers of Victoria, Supplementary Submission 530.2, p. 10.
[4] Environment Victoria, Submission 317, pp. 19-20.
[5] New South Wales Government, Submission 585, p. 29.
[6] Victorian Farmers Federation, Submission 395, p. 25.
[7] Mr May, Wakool Landholders Association, Transcript of Evidence, Swan Hill, pp. 24-25.
[8] Mr Mills, Mildura’s Future Water Group, Transcript of Evidence, Mildura, 19 January 2011, p. 6; and Victorian Farmers Federation, Submission 395, p. 25.
[9] Victorian Farmers Federation, Submission 395, p. 25.
[10] Murray Irrigation, Submission 440, p. 16.
[11] Murray Irrigation, Submission 440, p. 16.
[12] Murray Irrigation, Submission 440, p. 16.
[13] Mr Richard Bull, Water for Rivers, Transcript of Evidence, Canberra, 23 February 2011, p. 18; Water for Rivers, Submission 408, p.5; and Murray Irrigation, Submission 440, p. 3.
[14] Leslie Worland, Submission 167, p. 4.
[15] Mr Morton, Submission 638.
[16] Murrumbidgee Irrigation, Submission 419, p. 12.
[17] Murrumbidgee Irrigation, Submission 419, p. 12.
[18] Murrumbidgee Irrigation, Submission 419, p. 12.
[19] Mr Michael Spinks, Exhibit 142.
[20] Wimmera Irrigators Association, Submission 175, pp. 1-2.
[21] Northern Victorian Irrigators, Submission 555, p. 3.
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