Current Storage Volumes

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NEWSLETTER

You can download a copy of our Headworks newsletter HEADlines here…

Moorabool Shire Water Quality Policy

Four water authorities are involved in the management of potable water resources in the Moorabool Shire, a rapidly growing area to the west of Melbourne. These catchments provide water to nearly 300,000 persons outside the Shire, including the cities of Geelong and Ballarat and Melton. The open catchments include existing agricultural and urban areas and are under increasing pressures from further development.

The water authorities have adopted a common approach for reviewing development applications to ensure that there is consistency and that developers face a higher degree of certainty about acceptability of practices adopted in their proposals.

Information about this policy is contained in a series of Adobe Acrobat Documents available for you to download here.

HEADWORKS

Headworks are the large dams we operate, which have been constructed for the purposes of harvesting and storing large volumes of water. The purpose of these storages is to guarantee as far as possible the supply of water for specific purposes downstream.

SRW operates no less than seven large dams, together with a number of smaller regulating structures and several major tunnels, to collect and store water on behalf of our own irrigation districts, Western Water and Gippsland Water, Latrobe Valley power stations, and for use by farmers for irrigation on the lower reaches of the rivers on which the dams are built.

There is a location map of our Headworks storages available on-line. For more information on any of our Headworks storages, browse around using the site map on the left hand side of the page.