Mokoan Project - Victoria

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Final Water Savings 21,100 ML (21.1 GL)

Decommissioning Lake Mokoan will provide average annual water savings of 50,200 ML/year.

The project consists of two main parts, water supply infrastructure and efficiency works (off set package) needed to maintain existing reliability of water supply to water users reliant on the Lake system eg, Tungamah Stock and Domestic pipeline, a lake diverters pipeline, water entitlement purchase and real time metering, and the rehabilitation of the site following decommissioning of dam infrastructure and reinstatement of a more natural water regime to the original wetland area.

The rehabilitation of the Mokoan wetlands will be one of the biggest wetland restoration projects in Australia and is scheduled to start in 2010. Approximately 4400 hectares of the 8,000 hectare site will be part of the wetland area.

Prior to the late 1960s, the area occupied by Lake Mokoan was a wetland system consisting of two main wetlands, Winton and Green Swamps and several smaller swamps; Ashmeads, Humphries, Saddlers, Taminick, Black and Lindsays.

The Mokoan project has achieved an overall average water saving each year of approximately 50,200 ML to improve the health of the Broken, Goulburn, Snowy and Murray Rivers.

Re-introduction of a Mid-Murray storage into the River Murray regulated supply system using Lakes Boga, Charm & Kangaroo near Swan Hill will enable the capture and storage of 21,100 ML of these water savings annually. Water captured can be released back into the Murray System on demand, reducing potential shortfalls in the Sunraysia Region resulting from system constraints, particularly the Barmah Choke.

Once this mid-system storage is in place, Lake Jindabyne will release 21,100 ML less into the Murray system. In its place 21,100 ML will be released into the Snowy River on average each year to provide important environmental flows.

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