Allocations
(Click on the links below to visit the allocation page)
- High Reliability 70%
- Low Reliability 0%
- High Reliability 70%
- Low Reliability 0%
- 25%
Southern Rural Water covers an area of 88,000 km2, or 37% of the state. To find out if your property is in Southern Rural Water’s area, visit the water in your region web page. A seasonal allocation tells irrigators what percentage of their high and low reliability water shares they can use for the season. It reflects how much water is actually available in storage.
Storage Levels
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Southern Rural Water is responsible for 7 storages in its region, together with a number of smaller regulating structures. From these storages we harvest and store water for irrigation customers, urban water corporations and the Latrobe Valley Power generators in accordance with the provisions of Bulk Entitlement Orders.
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Increase for MID farmers
After recent rain, Macalister Irrigation District irrigators have been allocated 70% against high reliability water shares, giving them confidence to plan for the coming season. Inflows to Lake Glenmaggie and Thomson dam from recent rainfall in the upper catchments...
read moreRain brings welcome boost
Southern Rural Water has welcomed the recent rainfall which has flowed through the catchments into local reservoirs in the state's south west, following two years of below average rainfall and diminishing storage levels. This boost to the storages has enabled SRW to...
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