Murray-Darling Basin
22.1 Groundwater allocation announcements

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2010–11 year was 1,214,249 ML. The line item represents groundwater allocation announcements (excluding urban water systems) associated with a number of entitlement classes in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) region. Information on groundwater allocation announcements for urban water systems is included in line item 22.2 Groundwater allocation announcements – urban water system.

Following two tables provide a summary and breakdown information on groundwater allocation announcements (excluding urban water systems) within the region. 

 

Summary of groundwater allocation announcements (excluding urban water systems) in the MDB region in the 2010–11 year

Groundwater resource plan area		State	Volume (ML)
Code	Name
GW23	Warrego – Paroo – Nebine	Qld	–
GW22	Condamine–Balonne	Qld	–
GW21	Moonie	Qld	–
GW20	Qld Border Rivers	Qld	–
GW19	New South Wales Border Rivers Alluvium	NSW	–
GW18	New England Fractured Rock and Northern Basalts	NSW	–
GW17	Eastern Porous Rock	NSW	–
GW16	Gwydir Alluvium	NSW	38,804
GW15	Namoi Alluvium	NSW	291,425
GW14	New South Wales Alluvium above GAB	NSW	–
GW13	New South Wales Sediments above GAB	NSW	–
GW12	Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium	NSW	66,650
GW11	Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock	NSW	–
GW7	Darling Alluvium	NSW	–
Sub-total Northern Basin			396,879
GW11	Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock	NSW	–
GW7	Darling Alluvium	NSW	–
GW10	Lachlan Alluvium	NSW	120,545
GW9	Murrumbidgee Alluvium	NSW	293,417
GW8	Murray Alluvium	NSW	131,947
GW6	Western Porous Rock	NSW	–
GW2	Goulburn–Murray	Vic	224,286
GW3	Wimmera–Mallee (groundwater)	Vic	9,189
GW5	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	SA	10,450
GW4	SA Murray	SA	26,576
GW1	ACT (groundwater)	ACT	960
Sub-total Southern Basin			817,370
Total for the region			1,214,249

– = Data not available

 

Details of groundwater allocation announcements (excluding urban water systems) in the MDB region in the 2010–11 year

Groundwater resource plan area	Groundwater sustainable diversion limit area		State	Entitlement class	Volume (ML) for the 2010–11 year
	Code	Name
Gwydir Alluvium	GS29	Lower Gwydir Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	28,858
				Supplementary	9,946
				Sub-total	38,804
Namoi Alluvium	GS34	Lower Namoi Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	81,594
				Supplementary	10,437
				Sub-total	92,031
	GS45	Peel Valley Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	68,957
	GS51	Upper Namoi Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	110,111
				Supplementary	20,326
				Sub-total	130,437
Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium	GS31	Lower Macquarie Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	65,458
				Supplementary	1,192
				Sub-total	66,650
Lachlan Alluvium	GS30	Lower Lachlan Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	105,678
				Supplementary	14,867
				Sub-total	120,545
Murrumbidgee Alluvium	GS33	Lower Murrumbidgee Alluvium (shallow: Shepparton Formation and deep: Calivil Formation and Renmark Group)	NSW	Aquifer	272,819
				Supplementary	20,598
				Stock and domestic	0
				Sub-total	293,417
Murray Alluvium	GS32	Lower Murray Alluvium (shallow: Shepparton Formation and deep: Renmark Group and Calivil Formation)	NSW	Aquifer	83,493
				Aquifer – research	0
				Supplementary	48,454
				Sub-total	131,947
Sub-total New South Wales					942,788
Goulburn–Murray	GS8	Goulburn–Broken Highlands, Loddon–Campaspe Highlands, Murray Highlands, Ovens Highlands, Ovens–Kiewa Sedimentary Plain, Victorian Riverine Sedimentary Plain (shallow: Shepparton Formation) and Victorian Riverine Sedimentary Plain (deep: Calivil and Renmark Formations)	Vic	Aquifer	224,286
Wimmera–Mallee (groundwater)	GS9	West Wimmera (Loxton Parilla Sands), West Wimmera (Murray Group Limestone), West Wimmera (Tertiary Confined Sands), Wimmera–Avoca Highlands, Wimmera–Mallee Border Zone (Loxton Parilla Sands), Wimmera–Mallee Border Zone (Murray Group Limestone), Wimmera–Mallee Border Zone (Tertiary Confined Sand Aquifer) and Wimmera–Mallee Sedimentary Plain	Vic	Aquifer	9,189
Sub-total Victoria					233,475
Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	GS1	Angas Bremer (Quaternary Sediments and Murray Group Limestone)	SA	Aquifer	6,525
	GS4	Marne Saunders (Fractured Rock, Murray Group Limestone and Renmark Group)	SA	Aquifer	3,925
SA Murray	GS3	Mallee (Pliocene Sands, Murray Group Limestone and Renmark Group)	SA	Aquifer	24,365
	GS5	Peake–Roby–Sherlock (unconfined and confined)	SA	Aquifer	2,211
Sub-total South Australia					37,026
ACT (groundwater)	GS57	ACT (groundwater)	ACT	Aquifer	960
Sub-total Australian Capital Territory					960
Total					1,214,249

Note: Sustainable diversion limit (SDL) areas other than included in the tables may have values relevant to the line item, however, relevant information was not available for the 2011 Account.

 

Additional information

Allocations may be made for urban, stock and domestic or irrigation purposes under a single class of licence in the particular water resource plan area. Where the purpose was not known, and it was a general class of licence, the groundwater allocation announcement has been included in this line item under Aquifer entitlement class.

Values for the Gwydir Alluvium water resource plan area do not distinguish if they are for GS29 Lower Gwydir Alluvium or GS47 Upper Gwydir Alluvium. The volumes for these are reported as a combined value under GS29 Lower Gwydir Alluvium.

GS29 Lower Namoi Alluvium contains volumes sourced from the Lower Namoi Groundwater Source.

GS45 Peel Valley Alluvium – aquifer reports a combined volume based on water licences Aquifer & Aquifer (general security).

It was not possible to distinguish between the volumes for GS51 Upper Namoi Alluvium and GS52 Upper Namoi Tributary Alluvium. Volumes reported here under GS51 Upper Namoi Alluvium are sourced from the following groundwater sources:

• Upper Namoi zone 1 Borambil creek

• Upper Namoi zone 2 Cox's Creek (Mullaley to Boggabri)

• Upper Namoi zone 3 Mooki Valley (Breeza to Gunnedah)

• Upper Namoi zone 4 Namoi valley (Keepit Dam to Gin's Leap)

• Upper Namoi zone 5 Namoi Valley (Gin's Leap to Narrabri)

• Upper Namoi zone 6 Tributaries of the Liverpool Range (South to Pine Road)

• Upper Namoi zone 7 Yarraman Creek (East of Lake Goran to Mooki River)

• Upper Namoi zone 8 Mooki Valley (Quirindi – Pine road to Breeza)

• Upper Namoi zone 9 Cox's Creek (upstream Mullaley)

• Upper Namoi zone 10 Warrah Creek

• Upper Namoi zone 11 Maules Creek

• Upper Namoi zone 12 Kelvin Valley.

Water sharing plans were yet to commence or data were unavailable for the groundwater SDL areas listed in the following table.

 

 

Groundwater SDL areas for which data were not available for the line item

State	SDL area code	Groundwater SDL area
Qld	GS63	Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin: Warrego–Paroo–Nebine
Qld	GS66	St George Alluvium: Warrego–Paroo–Nebine
Qld	GS69	Warrego Alluvium
Qld	GS57	Condamine Fractured Rock
Qld	GS61	Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin: Condamine–Balonne
Qld	GS64	St George Alluvium: Condamine–Balonne (shallow and deep)
Qld	GS68	Upper Condamine Basalts
Qld	GS67	Upper Condamine Alluvium (Central Condamine Alluvium and Tributaries)
Qld	GS62	Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin: Moonie
Qld	GS65	St George Alluvium: Moonie
Qld	GS58	Queensland Border Rivers Alluvium
Qld	GS59	Queensland Border Rivers Fractured Rock
Qld	GS60	Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin: Border Rivers
NSW	GS38	NSW Border Rivers Alluvium
NSW	GS39	NSW Border Rivers Tributary Alluvium
NSW	GS17	Eastern Porous Rock: Macquarie–Castlereagh
NSW	GS18	Eastern Porous Rock: Namoi–Gwydir
NSW	GS47	Upper Gwydir Alluvium
NSW	GS35	Manilla Alluvium
NSW	GS37	NSW Alluvium above the Great Artesian Basin
NSW	GS40	NSW Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin
NSW	GS52	Upper Namoi Tributary Alluvium
NSW	GS11	Bell Valley Alluvium
NSW	GS15	Collaburragundry–Talbragar Alluvium
NSW	GS16	Cudgegong Alluvium
NSW	GS49	Upper Macquarie Alluvium
NSW	GS21	Lachlan Fold Belt: Lachlan
NSW	GS12	Belubula Alluvium
NSW	GS48	Upper Lachlan Alluvium
NSW	GS26	Lake George Alluvium
NSW	GS36	Mid-Murrumbidgee Alluvium
NSW	GS13	Billabong Creek Alluvium
NSW	GS71	Oaklands Basin
NSW	GS46	Upper Darling Alluvium
NSW	GS28	Lower Darling Alluvium
SA	GS2	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges
SA	GS6	SA Murray
SA	GS7	SA Murray Salt Interception Schemes

 

 

(1) New South Wales: NSW Office of Water's Water Access Licence Statistics, (2) South Australian Department for Water: Water Information and Licence Management Administration (WILMA) database, (3) Groundwater resource plans for Victoria and (4) water audit monitoring (WAM) data received from Australian Capital Territory (13 January 2012). WAM data are stored in the Murray–Darling Basin Authority HYDRO database.

Murray–Darling Basin Authority.

Allocation announcements were as calculated by the states.

The calculation of water made available may be affected by licences that have been cancelled or created part way through the 2010–11 year.

The New South Wales Government does not guarantee that data are current nor does it guarantee that the data or the data capturing processes are free from corruption or error. Data provided are preliminary and NSW Office of Water's quality assurance procedures may be incomplete. The NSW Office of Water cannot warrant and does not represent that the material that appears on its website or any linked websites is complete, current, reliable and/or free from error.

The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.

This line item corresponds to line items listed in the following table and reported in the 2010 Account. In the 2011 Account, the following change was made that caused the 2009–10 year value to be restated:

• Presentation and classification of the line items has changed since the 2010 Account: line items have been regrouped.

The changes and their respective values are detailed in the following table.

 

Restatement of comparative year information made for the line item 22.1 Groundwater allocation announcements

Description		Northern Basin (ML)	Southern Basin (ML)	Whole region (ML)
Line item names and values reported as at the 2009–10 year in the 2010 Account	27.1.1 Groundwater allocation announcement – stock and domestic class	0	324	324
	27.1.3.7 Groundwater allocation announcement – other lumped holders	334,973	808,054	1,143,027
	Total value reported for the 2010 Account	334,973	808,378	1,143,351
Changes in the value reported in the 2010 Account due to regrouping of line items		0	30	30
Value reported for the 2009–10 year in the 2011 Account		334,973	808,408	1,143,381

 

Regrouping of line items was due to the reclassification of Aquifer – research entitlement class in the Lower Murray Alluvium SDL area from urban to non-urban category of entitlements.