Murray-Darling Basin
32.3 Surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2010–11 year was 12,512,627 ML. The line item includes surface water entitlement or other arrangement that may produce a surface water liability. For the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) region, the line item includes surface water access entitlements that give access to regulated flow for non-urban and urban purposes. 

The following table presents summarised information for the line item on water resource plan (WRP) area basis. Subsequent tables provide breakdown information of entitlements separately for non-urban and urban purposes on sustainable diversion limit (SDL) area basis.

 

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

Surface water resource plan area		State	Volume (ML) for 2010–11
Code	Name		Non-urban entitlements	Urban entitlements	Total
SW19	Warrego – Paroo – Nebine	Qld	2,532	80	2,612
SW18	Condamine–Balonne	Qld	114,981	6,676	121,657
SW17	Moonie	Qld	0	0	0
SW16	Qld Border Rivers	Qld	105,411	1944	107,355
SW15	NSW Border Rivers	NSW	266,047	620	266,667
SW11	Barwon–Darling watercourse	NSW	0	0	0
SW12	NSW Intersecting Streams	NSW	0	0	0
SW14	Gwydir	NSW	527,287	3,836	531,123
SW13	Namoi	NSW	293,680	19,186	312,866
SW10	Macquarie–Castlereagh	NSW	655,478	18,845	674,323
Sub-total Northern Basin			1,965,416	51,187	2,016,603
SW9	Lachlan	NSW	678,186	15,545	693,731
SW8	Murrumbidgee	NSW	2,657,127	43,355	2,700,482
SW7	NSW Murray and Lower Darling	NSW	2,290,363	46,827	2,337,190
SW3	Northern Victoria	Vic	1,864,567	110,477	1,975,044
SW2	Vic Murray	Vic	1,802,599	51,784	1,854,383
SW4	Wimmera–Mallee	Vic	174,600	0	174,600
SW6	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	SA	0	0	0
SW5	SA Murray	SA	509,594	180,000	689,594
SW1	ACT	ACT	0	71,000	71,000
Sub-total Southern Basin			9,977,036	518,988	10,496,024
Total for the region			11,942,452	570,175	12,512,627

 

Details of surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion for nun-urban purposes in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Water resource plan area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Limit Type	Volume (ML) 2010–11	Data source	Additional comments
	Code	Name
SW19 Warrego – Paroo – Nebine	SS28	Warrego	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	2,532	Qld WAM 2010–11
SW18 Condamine–Balonne	SS26	Condamine–Balonne	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	114,981	Qld WAM 2010–11
SW16 Qld Border Rivers	SS24	Qld Border Rivers	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	105,411	Qld WAM 2010–11	Water access entitlements on regulated flows – individual irrigator holder
SW15 NSW Border Rivers	SS23	NSW Border Rivers	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	1,002	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border Rivers
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	1,500	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border Rivers
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	263,545	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border Rivers
								Combines Class A + B + general unstated classes as one volume. Implied allocation based on total Available Water Determination divided by total entitlements
SW14 Gwydir	SS22	Gwydir	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	2,744	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir regulated river
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	14,878	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir regulated river
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	509,665	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir regulated river
SW13 Namoi	SS21	Namoi	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	2,288	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Upper Namoi, Lower Namoi and Peel regulated rivers
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	4,788	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Upper Namoi, Lower Namoi and Peel regulated rivers
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	286,604	NSW Office of Water - Web	Includes Upper Namoi, Lower Namoi and Peel regulated rivers
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	5,589	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	18,173	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	631,716	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
Sub-total Northern Basin						1,965,416
SW9 Lachlan	SS16	Lachlan	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	14,308	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated river
							NSW WAM 2010–11
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	30,905	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated river
							NSW WAM 2010–11
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	615,062	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated river
							NSW WAM 2010–11
			Conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	17,911	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan regulated river
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Stock and somestic	NSW	Entitlement	35,943	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	357,146	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	1,888,070	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			Coleambally irrigation conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	130,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			Murrumbidgee irrigation conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	243,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			Regulated river (conveyance)	NSW	Entitlement	2,968	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
SW7 NSW Murray and Lower Darling	SS18	Lower Darling	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	1,375	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	7,633	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	78,099	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
	SS14	NSW Murray	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	17,190	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	188,389	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	1,667,677	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
			Regulated river (conveyance)	NSW	Entitlement	330,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
SW3 Northern Victoria	SS4	Ovens	High reliability water share	Vic	Entitlement	26,335	Victorian Water Register 2010	Excludes urban bulk entitlements but may include some commercial or industrial use
	SS5	Broken	High reliability water share – Broken (regulated private diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	18,138	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share –Broken (regulated private diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	3,379	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Domestic and stock, urban supplies – Broken Creek	Vic	Entitlement	–	Victorian Water Accounts 2009-10	Tungamah domestic and stock system includes 3 small urban sub-systems, prior to pipelining. Note that supply to this system may be met from the Vic River Murray
	SS6	Goulburn	High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	185,233	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe–Rochester area. This includes the environmental entitlement of 5,220 ML used in Campaspe
			High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	661,471	Vic WAM 2010–11	Shepparton and Central Goulburn Irrigation Area
			High reliability water share – Goulburn (regulated river diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	52,043	Vic WAM 2010–11
			High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	193,584	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Loddon – Pyramid – Boort Irrigation Area
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	84,836	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe–Rochester area. Includes environmental entitlement used in Campaspe
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	431,140	Vic WAM 2010–11	Shepparton and Central Goulburn Irrigation Area
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn (regulated river diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	12,621	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic	Entitlement	97,645	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Loddon – Pyramid – Boort Irrigation Area
	SS7	Campaspe	High reliability water share (Campaspe District and regulated diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	37,116	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share(Campaspe District and regulated diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	18,661	Vic WAM 2010–11
	SS8	Loddon	High reliability water share – Loddon (regulated diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	28,781	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share – Loddon (regulated diverters)	Vic	Entitlement	13,584	Vic WAM 2010–11
SW2 Vic Murray	SS2	Vic Murray	High reliability water share – Murray – gravity districts and irrigation areas	Vic	Entitlement	803,852	Vic WAM 2010–11
			High reliability water share – Murray – private diverters	Vic	Entitlement	563,444	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share – Murray – gravity districts and irrigation areas	Vic	Entitlement	268,745	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Low reliability water share – Murray – private diverters	Vic	Entitlement	166,558	Vic WAM 2010–11
SW4 Wimmera–Mallee	SS9	Wimmera–Mallee	High reliability water share	Vic	Entitlement	174,600	VIC WAM 2010–11	Wimmera Mallee Water Supply System – includes a mixture of town water supply, stock and domestic and irrigation
SW5 SA Murray	SS11	SA Murray	Class 1 – Stock, domestic and stock and domestic purposes	SA	Entitlement	8,705	SA WAM 2010–11
			Class 4 –recreation (recreation and environment)	SA	Entitlement	4,424	SA WAM 2010–11
			Class 3 a – irrigation and holding other than in the Qualco Sunlands groundwater control area (non-swamp irrigation)	SA	Entitlement	469,907	SA WAM 2010–11
			Class 3 b –irrigation and holding in the Qualco Sunlands	SA	Entitlement	21,038	SA WAM 2010–11
			Class 5 – industrial and industrial dairy (industrial)	SA	Entitlement	5,520	SA WAM 2010–11
Sub-total Southern Basin						9,977,036
Total for the region						11,942,452

– = Data not available, WAM = Water audit monitoring 

Values provided in the table except for Warrego, Condamine–Balonne and Campaspe SDL areas include entitlement volumes held / owned by environmental managers in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year. 

 

Details of surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion for urban purposes in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Water resource plan area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Limit Type	Volume (ML) the 2010–11 year	Data source	Additional comments
	Code	Name
SW19 Warrego –Paroo – Nebine	SS28	Warrego	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	80	Qld WAM 2010–11
SW18 Condamine–Balonne	SS26	Condamine–Balonne	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	6,676	Qld WAM 2010–11
SW16 Qld Border Rivers	SS24	Qld Border Rivers	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	1944	Qld WAM 2010–11
SW15 NSW Border Rivers	SS23	NSW Border Rivers	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	620	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border Rivers
SW14 Gwydir	SS22	Gwydir	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	3,836	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir regulated river
SW13 Namoi	SS21	Namoi	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	19,186	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Upper Namoi, Lower Namoi and Peel regulated rivers
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	High security – urban	NSW	Entitlement	40	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
			Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	18,805	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
Sub-total Northern Basin						51,187
SW9 Lachlan	SS16	Lachlan	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	15,545	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated river
							NSW WAM 2010–11
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	High security – urban	NSW	Entitlement	19,769	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
			Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	23,586	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated
SW7 NSW Murray and Lower Darling	SS18	Lower Darling	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	10,135	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
	SS14	NSW Murray	High security – urban	NSW	Entitlement	3,195	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
			Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	33,497	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
SW3 Northern Victoria	SS4	Ovens	Urban bulk entitlements – regulated	Vic	Entitlement	7,832	Victorian Water Register 2010	Oxley, Moyhu, Wangaratta
	SS5	Broken	Urban bulk entitlements – Broken	Vic	Entitlement	2,324	Vic WAM 2010–11	Benalla
	SS6	Goulburn	Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn channel	Vic	Entitlement	133	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe – Includes Goulburn entitlements supplied to Coliban via Goulburn channel
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn to Coliban	Vic	Entitlement	349	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn channel	Vic	Entitlement	7,058	Vic WAM 2010–11	Shepparton and Central Goulburn Irrigation Area
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn river	Vic	Entitlement	35,996	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn channel	Vic	Entitlement	890	Vic WAM 2010–11	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Loddon–Boort 425 ML, Dingee 50 ML, Macorna 40 ML, Mitiamo 60 ML, Mysia 15 ML and Pyramid Hill 300 ML
	SS7	Campaspe	Urban and rural bulk entitlements – Coliban	Vic	Entitlement	50,260	Vic WAM 2010–11	Domestic, Stock, Commercial and Industrial – Coliban System (from Malmsbury, Lauriston + Eppalock)
			Urban bulk entitlements – Campaspe channel	Vic	Entitlement	1,530	Vic WAM 2010–11	Includes Rochester and Lockington supplied via Campaspe channel
			Urban bulk entitlements – Campaspe regulated river	Vic	Entitlement	215	Vic WAM 2010–11	Axedale, Goornong and part Rochester
	SS8	Loddon	Urban bulk entitlements – Loddon	Vic	Entitlement	3,890	Vic WAM 2010–11
SW2 Vic Murray	SS2	Vic Murray	Urban bulk entitlements – regulated	Vic	Entitlement	48,542	Vic WAM 2010–11
			Domestic and stock, urban supplies – Northern Mallee	Vic	Entitlement	3,242	Vic WAM 2010–11
SW5 SA Murray	SS11	SA Murray	Class 6 – urban water use – metropolitan Adelaide (Metropolitan Adelaide and associated country areas)	SA	Entitlement	130,000	SA WAM 2010–11
			Class 2 – urban water use – country towns (SA country towns)	SA	Entitlement	50,000	SA WAM 2010–11
SW1 ACT	SS1	ACT	ACTEW – dam extractions	ACT	Entitlement	71,000	ACT WAM 2010–11
Sub-total Southern Basin						518,988
Total for the region						570,175

 WAM = Water audit monitoring 

 

Water restrictions

The following table provides information on water restrictions applicable during the 2010–11 year for different entitlement classes related to the line item. 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	Domestic and stock , high security, general security,  high security – urban and local water utility	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	Domestic and stock , high security, general security and local water utility	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	Domestic and stock , high security and general security	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
		High security – urban and local water utility	NSW	Full allocations announced for Urban entitlements. Restrictions at the discretion of local urban councils
				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	Domestic and stock , high security and general security	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
		High security – urban and local water utility	NSW	Full allocations announced for Urban entitlements. Restrictions at the discretion of local urban councils
				The water resource plan remained suspended for the water year. NSW Office of Water announced that the suspension will be lifted on 1 July 2011
SS4	Ovens	Urban bulk entitlements – regulated	Vic	Only the townships of Bundalong and Springhurst were subject to urban water restrictions during the 2010–11 year. Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS5	Broken	Urban bulk entitlements – Broken	Vic	Goorambat was the only town in this area subject to urban water restrictions during the 2010–11 year. Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS6	Goulburn	Urban bulk entitlements: Goulburn channel , Goulburn to Coliban and  Goulburn river	Vic	Restrictions for towns within Goulburn SDL area were removed at the end of September 2010. Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS7	Campaspe	Urban and rural bulk entitlements: Coliban, Campaspe channel  and Campaspe regulated river	Vic	Restrictions were eased to lower levels and removed for almost all towns during the 2010–11 year.   Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS8	Loddon	Urban bulk entitlements – Loddon	Vic	Restrictions were gradually eased and then removed for almost all towns by the end of the 2010–11 year. Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS2	Vic Murray	Urban bulk entitlements – regulated	Vic	Urban restrictions within Victorian Murray SDL  area were gradually lifted by the end of January 2011 as water availability improved. Town supply is also restricted by the Victorian permanent water savings rules
SS11	SA Murray	Class 2 – urban water use – country towns (SA country towns) and Class 6 – urban water use – metropolitan Adelaide (Metropolitan Adelaide and associated country areas)	SA	Due to good inflows into the region and improving storage volumes, Stage 3 water restrictions has been lifted for this class of entitlement. Permanent water savings conservation measures came into effect from 1 December 2010
SS1	ACT	ACTEW – Dam extractions	ACT	Due to minimal inflows and low storage volumes restrictions operated for this class of entitlement. Stage 2 water restrictions were lifted in the ACT on 1 November 2010 and have been replaced by permanent water conservation measures

 

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 32.3 Surface water access entitlement for allocation 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	R1.3.1 Stock and domestic class	11,890	68,852	80,742
	R1.3.2 High security class, R1.3.2.4 Urban holder	4,385	224,631	229,016
	R1.3.2 High security class, R1.3.2.5 Individual holder for stock and domestic	0	20,000	20,000
	R1.3.2 High security class, R1.3.2.6 Environmental holder	0	412,422	412,422
	R1.3.2 High security class, R1.3.2.7 Other lumped holder	34,727	2,878,933	2,913,660
	R1.3.3 General or low security class, R1.3.3.5 Environmental holder	215,714	961,995	1,177,709
	R1.3.3 General or low security class, R1.3.3.6 Other lumped holder	1,474,762	4,577,643	6,052,405
	R1.3.4 Urban class	51,792	310,463	362,255
	R1.3.9 Other – lumped class, R1.3.9.1 Bulk irrigator holder	0	679,500	679,500
	R1.3.9 Other – lumped class, R1.3.9.2 Individual irrigator holder	215,316	573,523	788,839
	R1.3.9 Other – lumped class, R1.3.9.6 Environmental holder	5,525	24,500	30,025
	R1.3.9 Other – lumped class, R1.3.9.7 Other lumped holder	0	23,121	23,121
	Total value reported for the 2010 Account	2,014,111	10,755,583	12,769,694
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		2,014,111	10,790,273	12,804,384