Murray–Darling Basin
18.11 Entitled extraction of allocated groundwater to users

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2011–12 year was 606,970 ML. The line item represents groundwater allocation diversion (excluding urban water systems) associated with a number of entitlement classes in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) region. Information on groundwater allocation diversions for urban water systems is included in line item 18.12 Groundwater allocation diversion – urban water system.

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

Summary of entitled extraction of allocated groundwater to users (excluding urban water systems) in the MDB region in the 2011–12 year.

Groundwater resource plan area		State/Territory	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year
Code	Name
GW22	Warrego–Paroo–Nebine	Qld	–
GW21	Condamine–Balonne	Qld	128,360
GW20	Moonie	Qld	149
GW19	Qld Border Rivers	Qld	1,658
GW18	New South Wales Border Rivers Alluvium	NSW	732
GW17	New England Fractured Rock and Northern Basalts	NSW	15
GW16	Eastern Porous Rock	NSW	2,570
GW15	Gwydir Alluvium	NSW	21,483
GW14	Namoi Alluvium	NSW	75,890
GW13	New South Wales Great Artesian Basin Shallow	NSW	932
GW12	Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium	NSW	16,752
GW11	Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock	NSW	0
GW7	Darling Alluvium	NSW	–
Sub-total Northern Basin			248,541
GW11	Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock	NSW	2,260
GW7	Darling Alluvium	NSW	0
GW10	Lachlan Alluvium	NSW	76,937
GW9	Murrumbidgee Alluvium	NSW	123,258
GW8	Murray Alluvium	NSW	33,324
GW6	Western Porous Rock	NSW	3,339
GW2	Goulburn–Murray	Vic.	77,471
GW3	Wimmera–Mallee (groundwater)	Vic.	5,128
GW5	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	SA	3,408
GW4	SA Murray	SA	32974
GW1	Australian Capital Territory (groundwater)	ACT	331
Sub-total Southern Basin			358,429
Total for the region			606,970

– = Data not available

Details of entitled extraction of allocated groundwater to users (excluding urban water systems) in the MDB region in the 2011–12 year

Groundwater resource plan area	Groundwater sustainable diversion limit (SDL) area		State/Territory	Entitlement class	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year
	Code	Name
GW21 Condamine–Balonne	GS53, GS58, GS61, GS64 and GS65	Condamine Fractured Rock, Sediments above the GAB: Condamine–Balonne, St George Alluvium: Condamine–Balonne (shallow and deep), Upper Condamine Alluvium and Upper Condamine Basalts	Qld	Aquifer	128,360
GW20 Moonie	GS59 and GS62	Sediments above the GAB: Moonie and St George Alluvium	Qld	Aquifer	149
GW19 Qld Border Rivers	GS54, GS55 and GS57	Qld Border Rivers Alluvium, Qld Border Rivers Fractured Rock and Sediments above the GAB: Border Rivers	Qld	Aquifer	1,658
Sub-total Queensland					130,167
GW18 New South Wales Border Rivers Alluvium	GS32	NSW Border Rivers Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	731
	GS33	NSW Border Rivers Tributary Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	1
GW17 New England Fractured Rock and Northern Basalts	GS18	Inverell Basalt	NSW	Aquifer	0
	GS22	Liverpool Ranges Basalt	NSW	Aquifer	0
	GS37	New England Fold Belt	NSW	Aquifer	15
	GS49	Warrumbungle Basalt	NSW	Aquifer	0
GW16 Eastern Porous Rock	GS17	Gunnedah–Oxley Basin MDB	NSW	Aquifer	2,570
	GS41	Sydney Basin MDB	NSW	Aquifer	0
GW15 Gwydir Alluvium	GS24	Lower Gwydir Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	14,642
				Supplementary	6,841
				Sub-total	21,483
GW14 Namoi Alluvium	GS29	Lower Namoi Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	25,077
				Supplementary	6,162
				Sub-total	31,239
	GS40	Peel Valley Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	4,162
	GS47	Upper Namoi Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	29,002
				Supplementary	11,487
				Sub-total	40,489
GW13 New South Wales Great Artesian Basin Shallow	GS34 to GS 36	New South Wales GAB: Surat Shallow, Warrego Shallow and Central Shallow	NSW	Aquifer	932
GW12 Macquarie-Castlereagh Alluvium	GS14	Castlereagh Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	0
	GS26	Lower Macquarie Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	15,912
				Supplementary	840
				Sub-total	16,752
GW 11 Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock (Northern Basin)	GS19	Kanmantoo Fold Belt	NSW	Aquifer	0
GW 11 Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock (Southern Basin)	GS10	Adelaide Fold Belt	NSW	Aquifer	0
	GS 20	Lachlan Fold Belt	NSW	Aquifer	1,361
				Salinity and water table management	0
				Sub-total	1,361
	GS39	Orange Basalt	NSW	Aquifer	388
	GS51	Young Granite	NSW	Aquifer	510
GW7 Darling Alluvium	GS23	Lower Darling Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	0
GW10 Lachlan Alluvium	GS25	Lower Lachlan Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	65,190
				Supplementary	11,747
				Sub-total	76,937
GW9 Murrumbidgee Alluvium	GS28	Lower Murrumbidgee Alluvium (shallow; Shepparton formation and deep; Calivil formation and Renmark Group)	NSW	Aquifer	109,120
				Supplementary	14,139
				Sub-total	123,258
GW8 Murray Alluvium	GS27	Lower Murray Alluvium (shallow; Shepparton formation and deep; Renmark Group and Calivil formation)	NSW	Aquifer	13,696
				Salinity and water table management	0
				Supplementary	15,595
				Sub-total	29,291
	GS46	Upper Murray Alluvium	NSW	Aquifer	4,033
GW6 Western Porous Rock	GS50	Western Porous Rock	NSW	Aquifer	3,339
				Salinity and water table management	0
				Sub-total	3,339
Sub-total New South Wales					357,491
GW2 Goulburn-Murray	GS8	Goulburn–Murray (Shepparton irrigation region, highlands and sedimentary plain)	Vic.	Aquifer	77,471
GW3 Wimmera–Mallee (groundwater)	GS9	Wimmera–Mallee (highlands and sedimentary plain)	Vic.	Aquifer	5,128
Sub-total Victoria					82,599
GW5 Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	GS01	Angas Bremer (Quaternary sediments and Murray Group limestone)	SA	Aquifer	1,971
	GS04	Marne Saunders (fractured rock, Murray Group limestone and Renmark Group)	SA	Aquifer	1,437
GW4 SA Murray	GS03	Mallee (Pliocene Sands, Murray Group limestone and Renmark Group)	SA	Aquifer	31,732
	GS05	Peake–Roby–Sherlock (unconfined and confined)	SA	Aquifer	1,242
Sub-total South Australia					36,382
GW1 ACT (groundwater)	GS52	ACT (groundwater)	ACT	Aquifer	331
Sub-total Australian Capital Territory					331
Total					606,970

 

Additional information

SDL areas not shown in the table may have values relevant to the line item; however, relevant information was not available for the 2012 Account.

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 under 'Aquifer'.

GS 32 NSW Border Rivers Alluvium includes both upstream Keetah Bridge and downstream Keetah Bridge alluvial groundwater sources.

GS 33 NSW Border Rivers Tributary Alluvium includes Macintyre and Ottleys Creek alluvial groundwater sources. 

GS40 Peel Valley Alluvium–aquifer reports a combined volume based on water licences aquifer, aquifer (general security), and domestic and stock.

GS28 Lower Murrumbidgee Alluvium–aquifer reports a combined volume based on water licences aquifer, and domestic and stock.

Volumes reported here under GS47 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 Reservoir 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 (up-stream Mullaley)
• Upper Namoi zone 10 Warrah Creek
• Upper Namoi zone 11 Maules Creek
• Upper Namoi zone 12 Kelvin Valley.

Extraction volume reported for GS 8 Goulburn–Murray includes 178 ML extracted for urban use in Katunga (58 ML), Wangaratta (108 ML) and Goorambat (12 ML).

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	GS56	Queensland MDB: Deep
Qld	GS60	Sediments above the Great Artesian Basin: Warrego–Paroo–Nebine
Qld	GS63	St George Alluvium: Warrego–Paroo–Nebine
Qld	GS66	Warrego Alluvium
NSW	GS43	Upper Gwydir Alluvium
NSW	GS30	Manilla Alluvium
NSW	GS48	Upper Namoi Tributary Alluvium
NSW	GS11	Bell Valley Alluvium
NSW	GS15	Collaburragundry–Talbragar Alluvium
NSW	GS16	Cudgegong Alluvium
NSW	GS45	Upper Macquarie Alluvium
NSW	GS12	Belubula Alluvium
NSW	GS44	Upper Lachlan Alluvium
NSW	GS21	Lake George Alluvium
NSW	GS31	Mid-Murrumbidgee Alluvium
NSW	GS13	Billabong Creek Alluvium
NSW	GS42	Upper Darling Alluvium
SA	GS2	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges
SA	GS6	SA Murray
SA	GS7	SA Murray salt interception schemes

 

Total groundwater use reported in the 2011 Account for the 2010–11 year under line items 18.7, 18.11 and 18.12 was 367,981 ML. The volume was updated as 393,593 ML for the 2012 Account.  The volumes were based on available information for the accounts.  Particularly information was not available for Queensland and several SDL areas in New South Wales. Murray–Darling Basin Authority (2012j) reported the total groundwater use in the Basin as 511,000 ML for the 2010–11 year.

(1) New South Wales Office of Water: water access licence statistics; (2) South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources; and (3) Murray–Darling Basin Authority: water audit monitoring (WAM) data received from Australian Capital Territory (10 January 2013) and Victoria (21 March 2013), and stored in the HYDRO database.

Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau).

Metered extractions were as compiled by the states.

Information for New South Wales is based on data available in New South Wales Office of Water's water access licence statistics at the data collection stage. It is possible that changes if any from subsequent update to that data base have not been included in this line item.

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 New South Wales Office of Water's quality assurance procedures may be incomplete. The New South Wales 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 item 18.11 'Groundwater allocation extraction' reported in the 2011 Account.