Allocations
(Click on the links below to visit the allocation page)
- High Reliability 100%
- Low Reliability 0%
- High Reliability 90%
- Low Reliability 0%
- 50%
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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Torquay private dam incident
9 October update Southern Rural Water has conducted extensive investigations and tests on water sources, the privately-owned dam and its infrastructure to help identify the cause of the leaks on Friday, which led to the evacuation of around 100 residents from areas of...
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*** Updated Wed 21 Oct Oct: Spill entitlement period has been extended to Thursday 29 October *** Good inflows to Lake Glenmaggie in recent months and the wet outlook have enabled Southern Rural Water to declare spill entitlement until Thursday 29 October 2020.
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