Southern Rural Water has undertaken improvement works on the Macalister Irrigation District’s Main Northern and Main Southern channel siphons this winter. 

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued an El Nino watch, indicating a 50 percent chance of an El Nino this year, with modelling suggesting sea surface temperatures will be met or exceeded by August of this winter.

Customers in the Macalister Irrigation District are reminded that the 2022-23 irrigation season will finish on 15 May 2022.

The Newry pipeline contract was announced in September 2022 and will be delivered as part of Phase 2 of the $159.7 million Macalister Irrigation District modernisation program.