Water for Rivers with the support of NSW State Water, has submitted a bid to Round 3 of the Federal Government – On Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program. The purpose of this bid is to integrate this program with the existing Murray Pilot metering and Murrumbidgee CARM projects, offering irrigators greater on-farm benefits.
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Water for Rivers is actively planning in partnership with consultants to potentially rationalise over 18 kilometers of open channel that borders the growing township of Cobram, located on the Murray River.
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Old Man Creek is a flow through system, receiving water from the Murrumbidgee River downstream of Wagga Wagga (at Beavers Creek Weir) and returning to the Murrumbidgee River upstream of Narrandera. The creek bypasses Berembed Weir; the main supply to MIA. The creek supplies irrigation and environmental flows to areas west of Wagga Wagga and south of the river.
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Bundidgerry Creek supplies water to Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) from the Murrumbidgee River. Water flows through the Bundidgerry Creek system from Berembed Weir to a regulator owned and operated by MIA, 8km upstream from Narrandera. Water released from MIA’s regulator flows through the Lake Talbot complex before passing MIA’s meter at Narrandera.
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A recent focus of Water for Rivers Business Plan is on-farm reconfiguration, and rationalisation.
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Water for Rivers is working in partnership with State Water and the NSW Department of Water and Energy (DWE) to establish the Murrumbidgee River as the worlds most efficiently managed and operated working river system.
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The Yanco Creek system is an important effluent system of the Murrumbidgee River which meets the Murray River system at Moulamein.
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