Murray-Darling Basin
32.2 Surface water access entitlement for direct diversion

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2010–11 year was 4,777,560 ML. The line item includes surface water entitlement or other arrangement for which no surface water liability was recognised in the 2011 Account. For the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) region, the line item includes surface water access entitlements that give access to unregulated flow, including supplementary entitlements (entitlements within regulated systems that give access to unregulated flow).. 

The following table presents summarised information for the line item on water resource plan (WRP) area basis. Subsequent tables provide breakdown information on sustainable diversion limit (SDL) area basis.

 

Summary of surface water access entitlement for direct diversion in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Surface water resource plan area		State	Volume (ML)
Code	Name		Unregulated entitlements (excluding supplementary entitlements)	Supplementary entitlements	Total
SW19	Warrego – Paroo – Nebine	Qld	116,394	0	116,394
SW18	Condamine–Balonne	Qld	2,199,397	0	2,199,397
SW17	Moonie	Qld	76,480	0	76,480
SW16	Qld Border Rivers	Qld	397,775	0	397,775
SW15	NSW Border Rivers	NSW	31,079	120,001	151,080
SW11	Barwon–Darling watercourse	NSW	187,603	0	187,603
SW12	NSW Intersecting Streams	NSW	24,127	0	24,127
SW14	Gwydir	NSW	37,494	177,347	214,841
SW13	Namoi	NSW	118,840	115,469	234,309
SW10	Macquarie–Castlereagh	NSW	69,090	50,043	119,133
Sub-total Northern Basin			3,258,279	462,860	3,721,139
SW9	Lachlan	NSW	20,212	0	20,212
SW8	Murrumbidgee	NSW	62,594	198,781	261,375
SW7	NSW Murray and Lower Darling	NSW	54,680	502,368	557,048
SW3	Northern Victoria	Vic	164,637	0	164,637
SW2	Vic Murray	Vic	48,905	0	48,905
SW4	Wimmera–Mallee	Vic	0	0	0
SW6	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	SA	0	0	0
SW5	SA Murray	SA	0	0	0
SW1	ACT	ACT	4,244	0	4,244
Sub-total Southern Basin			355,272	701,149	1,056,421
Total for the region			3,613,551	1,164,009	4,777,560

 

Details of surface water access entitlements that give access to unregulated flow in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Water resource plan area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Limit Type	Volume (ML)	Data source	Additional comments
	Code	Name
SW19 Warrego – Paroo – Nebine	SS29	Paroo	Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	70	Qld WAM 2010–11 data	The Warrego, Paroo, Bullo and Nebine Resource Operations Plan January 2006 (Attachment 4C) indicate that of the 70ML on issue at the commencement of the plan, possibly 30ML is for urban use. However WAM treats this as all irrigation, hence it is shown here as irrigation
	SS28	Warrego	Unsupplemented water allocations with flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	87,250	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	3,630	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences1	Qld	Nominal	16,240	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
	SS27	Nebine	Unsupplemented water allocations with flow conditions1	Qld	Volumetric	7,220	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	1,750	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences	Qld	Volumetric	75	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences – urban	Qld	Volumetric	159	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
SW18 Condamine–Balonne	SS26	Condamine–Balonne	Unsupplemented water allocations with flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	2,162,635	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	36,590	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences	Qld	Nominal	172	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
SW17 Moonie	SS25	Moonie	Unsupplemented water licences – urban	Qld	Nominal	10	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	72,934	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	1,784	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences1	Qld	Nominal	1,752	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
SW16 Qld Border Rivers	SS24	Qld Border Rivers	Unsupplemented water allocations with flow conditions1	Qld	Volumetric	396,575	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water allocations with no flow conditions	Qld	Volumetric	1,140	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
			Unsupplemented water licences	Qld	Nominal	60	Qld WAM 2010–11 data
SW15 NSW Border Rivers	SS23	NSW Border Rivers	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	362	Draft Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources – December 2010	Unregulated Border Rivers
			Local water utility access licences	NSW	Entitlement	64	Draft Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources – December 2010	Unregulated Border Rivers
			Unregulated entitlements	NSW	Entitlement	–	NSW WAM 2010–11 data	No value used from WAM as draft plan and existing plans exceeded value of unregulated entitlements in WAM
			Unregulated river access licences	NSW	Entitlement	30,653	Draft Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources – December 2010	Unregulated Border Rivers
SW11 Barwon–Darling watercourse	SS19	Barwon–Darling watercourse	Unregulated entitlements1	NSW	Entitlement	187,603	NSW WAM 2008-09 data, and NSW Office of Water - Report card for the Moonie River Water Source – December 2010 (for Yanda Creek)
SW12 NSW Intersecting Streams	SS17	NSW Intersecting Streams	Unregulated licensed entitlements	NSW	Entitlement	12,952	NSW Office of Water – Report card for the Culgoa River Water Source and Report card for the Narran River Water Source – December 2010	Condamine Balonne catchment
			Unregulated entitlements	NSW	Entitlement	1,063	NSW Office of Water – Report card for the Moonie River Water Source – December 2010	Moonie catchment
			Unregulated licensed entitlements	NSW	Entitlement	541	NSW Office of Water – Report card for the Paroo River Water Source – December 2010	Paroo catchment
			Unregulated licensed entitlements	NSW	Entitlement	9,571	NSW Office of Water – Report card for the Warrego River Water Source – December 2010	Warrego catchment
SW14 Gwydir	SS22	Gwydir	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Entitlement	37,494	NSW WAM 2010–11 data	Total entitlements of 453,356 ML have riparian rights of 7,862 ML deducted
SW13 Namoi	SS21	Namoi	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Entitlement	118,840	NSW WAM 2010–11 data	Total entitlements of 122,988 ML have riparian rights of 4,148 ML deducted
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	395	Draft Water Sharing Plan Castlereagh River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources December 2010	Castlereagh River unregulated
			Local water utility access licences	NSW	Entitlement	1,820	Draft Water Sharing Plan Castlereagh River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources December 2010	Castlereagh River unregulated
			Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Entitlement	53,553	NSW WAM 2010–11 data	Total unregulated entitlements of 69,090 ML for the region have other unregulated rights of 391 ML for stock and domestic, 1,820 ML for urban and 13,322 ML for Castlereagh unregulated deducted
			Unregulated river access licences	NSW	Entitlement	13,322	Draft Water Sharing Plan Castlereagh River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources December 2010	Castlereagh River Unregulated
Sub-total Northern Basin						3,258,279
SW9 Lachlan	SS16	Lachlan	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Entitlement	20,212	NSW WAM 2010–11 data
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Entitlement	62,594	NSW WAM 2010–11 data
SW7 NSW Murray and Lower Darling	SS14	NSW Murray	Unregulated entitlement1	NSW	Entitlement	54,680	NSW WAM 2010–11	Includes Poon–Boon environmental entitlements
SW2 Vic Murray	SS3	Kiewa	Urban entitlements – unregulated Kiewa	Vic	Entitlement	1,107	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
			Unregulated licenses – Kiewa – private diverters	Vic	Entitlement	18,513	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
SW3 Northern Victoria	SS4	Ovens	Urban bulk entitlements – unregulated	Vic	Entitlement	2,513	Victorian Water Register 2010	Bright 704 ML, Chiltern 180 ML (surface or groundwater), Glenrowan 90 ML, Harrietville 91 ML, Myrtleford 1,212 ML, Porpunkah 166 ML, Springhurst 36 ML and Whitfield 34 ML
			Spillage sales	Vic	Entitlement	12,485	Victorian Water Register 2010	This is an unregulated entitlement held by irrigators in the "regulated" part of the system. It is highly reliable, but can be accessed only until storages cease to spill (usually in December or January). Storages typically spill for 6–10 months of the year
			Unregulated licences	Vic	Entitlement	25,058	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
	SS5	Broken	Unregulated licences – Broken	Vic	Entitlement	10,089	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
	SS6	Goulburn	Unregulated licences – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	74,393	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
	SS7	Campaspe	Urban bulk entitlements – unregulated Campaspe	Vic	Entitlement	470	Victorian Water Register 2010 & VIC WAM 2010–11	Woodend – proposed bulk entitlement
			Unregulated licences – Campaspe	Vic	Entitlement	8,227	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
	SS8	Loddon	Urban bulk entitlements – unregulated Loddon	Vic	Entitlement	1,416	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
			Unregulated licences – Loddon	Vic	Entitlement	29,986	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
SW2 Vic Murray	SS2	Vic Murray	Urban entitlements – unregulated Murray	Vic	Entitlement	866	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
			Unregulated licenses – Murray – private diverters	Vic	Entitlement	28,419	Vic WAM 2010–11 data
SW1 ACT	SS1	ACT	Private surface water irrigation diversions	ACT	Entitlement	4,244	ACT WAM 2010–11
Sub-total Southern Basin						355,272
Total for the region						3,613,551

– = Data not available, WAM = Water audit monitoring 

¹ Provided values include entitlement volumes held or owned by environmental managers in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year.  

 

 

Details of surface water supplementary entitlements in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Water resource plan area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Volume (ML)	Data source	Additional comments
	Code	Name
SW15 NSW Border Rivers	SS23	NSW Border Rivers	Supplementary water	NSW	120,001	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border Rivers
SW14 Gwydir	SS22	Gwydir	Supplementary water access1	NSW	177,347	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir Regulated River
SW13 Namoi	SS21	Namoi	Supplementary water access	NSW	115,469	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Upper Namoi, Lower Namoi and Peel regulated Rivers
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Supplementary water access1	NSW	50,043	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated supplementary licences
Sub-total Northern Basin					462,860
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Supplementary water1	NSW	198,781	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
SW7 NSW Murray and Lower Darling	SS18	Lower Darling	Supplementary water access1	NSW	250,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
	SS14	NSW Murray	Supplementary water access1	NSW	252,368	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray Regulated River
Sub-total Southern Basin					701,149
Total for the region					1,164,009

– = Data not available

¹ Provided values include entitlement volumes held or owned by environmental managers in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year. 

 

Water restrictions

The following table provides information on water restrictions applicable during the 2010–11 year for the unregulated entitlement class. For the SDL areas not included in the table, restriction information is not available.

 

Details of water restrictions as applicable in the 2010–11 year

SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Details of water restriction
Code	Name
SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Water sharing plans remained suspended for the year. NSW Office of Water announced that the suspension will be lifted during the 2011-2012 water year.
SS16	Lachlan	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	Water sharing plans remained suspended for the year. NSW Office of Water announced that the suspension will be lifted on 1 July 2011.
SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	The water sharing plan remained suspended for the water year. NSW Office of Water announced that the suspension will be lifted on 1 July 2011.
SS14	NSW Murray	Unregulated entitlement	NSW	The water sharing plan remained suspended for the water year. NSW Office of Water announced that the suspension will be lifted on 1 July 2011.

 

See the Data source stated in the tables provided under Supporting information.

Murray–Darling Basin Authority.

Values were extracted from jurisdictional water sharing plans (see the table in Supporting information).

See Additional comments in the breakdown table in Supporting information.

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 (regrouping) has changed since the 2010 Account; 34,690 ML included as entitlements from unregulated flows for Wimmera–Avoca in the 2010 Account was considered as entitlements for allocation diversion for the 2011 Account.

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

 

Restatement of comparative year information made for the line item 32.2 Surface water access entitlement for direct diversion

Description		Northern Basin (ML)	Southern Basin (ML)	Whole region (ML)
Line item names and values reported as at 30 June 2010 in the 2010 Account	R1.2.1 Stock and domestic	753	0	753
	R1.2.2 Urban	1,894	6,372	8,266
	R1.2.5 Other – lumped class: R1.2.5.2 Individual irrigator holder	3,124,716	109,642	3,234,358
	R1.2.5 Other –lumped class: R1.2.5.6 Other lumped holder (environment)	62,578	458,455	521,033
	R1.2.5 Other – lumped class: R1.2.5.6 Other lumped holder excluding environment)	537,969	497,518	1,035,487
	Total value reported for the 2010 Account	3,727,910	1,071,987	4,799,897
Changes in the value reported in the 2010 Account due to regrouping of line items		0	–34,690	–34,690
Value reported for 30 June 2010 in the 2011 Account		3,727,910	1,037,297	4,765,207