Murray–Darling Basin
32.3 Surface water access entitlement for allocated diversions

Supporting information
Quantification approach
Comparative year

Supporting information

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2011–12 year was 12,487,892 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 allocated diversiosn in the MDB region as applicable in the 2011–12 year
WRP area		State/Territory	Volume (ML) for 2010–11
Code	Name	State/Territory	Non-urban entitlements	Urban entitlements	Total
SW19	Warrego–Paroo–Nebine	Qld	2,612	0	2,612
SW18	Condamine–Balonne	Qld	114,981	0	114,981
SW17	Moonie	Qld	0	0	0
SW16	Qld Border Rivers	Qld	103,518	0	103,518
SW15	NSW Border Rivers	NSW	265,740	620	266,360
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	293,621	19,186	312,807
SW10	Macquarie–Castlereagh	NSW	655,477	18,845	674,322
*Sub-total Northern Basin*			*1,963,236*	*42,487*	*2,005,723*
SW9	Lachlan	NSW	690,184	15,545	705,729
SW8	Murrumbidgee	NSW	2,699,516	43,585	2,743,101
SW7	NSW Murray and Lower Darling	NSW	2,296,451	46,827	2,343,278
SW3	Northern Victoria	Vic.	1,804,539	100.765	1,905,304
SW2	Vic. Murray	Vic.	1,720,163	51,784	1,771,947
SW4	Wimmera–Malee	Vic.	72,520	47,310	119,830
SW6	Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges	SA	0	0	0
SW5	SA Murray	SA	642,981	180,000	822,981
SW1	ACT	ACT	0	70,000	70,000
Sub-total Southern Basin			9,926,353	555,816	10,482,169
Total for the region			11,889,589	598,303	12,487,892

Details of surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion for nun-urban purposes in the MDB region as applicable in the 2011–12 year
WRP area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State	Limit Type	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year	Data source	Additional comments
WRP area	Code	Name	Entitlement class	State	Limit Type	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year	Data source	Additional comments
SW19 Warrego– Paroo–Nebine	SS28	Warrego	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	2,612	Qld WAM 2011–12 data
SW18 Condamine–Balonne	SS26	Condamine–Balonne	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	114,981	Qld WAM 2011–12 data
SW16 Qld Border Rivers	SS24	Qld Border Rivers	Supplemented water allocations	Qld	Nominal	103,518	Qld WAM 2011–12 data	(i) Water access entitlements on regulated flows (ii) individual irrigator holder Includes 10,610 ML environmental entitlement
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	263,238	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Regulated Border rivers: includes 269 ML environmental 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: includes 375 ML environmental entitlements
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	509,665	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Gwydir regulated river: includes 106,617 ML environmental entitlements
SW13 Namoi	SS21	Namoi	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	2,289	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	286,544	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes upper Namoi, lower Namoi and Peel regulated rivers: includes 6,203 ML environmental entitlements
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	5,588	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: includes 146,423 ML environmental entitlements
*Sub-total Northern Basin*						*1,963,236*
SW9 Lachlan	SS16	Lachlan	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	14,306	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated rivers
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	30,905	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated rivers: includes 1,733 ML environmental entitlements
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	627,062	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan and Belubula regulated rivers: include environmental entitlements 135,794 ML (123,794 ML general security and 12,000 ML entitlements created outside the Cap for Lake Brewster)
			Conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	17,911	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan regulated river
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Stock and domestic	NSW	Entitlement	35,942	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated river
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	395,611	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated River: includes entitlements for Aboriginal Culture, research and irrigated agriculture, and include environmental entitlements 38,140 ML (3,490 ML high security and 34,650 ML entitlements created outside the Cap for the Forrest Creek)
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	1,891,995	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee Regulated River: includes 358,313 ML environmental entitlements
			Coleambally irrigation conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	130,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated River: includes 3,500 ML environmental entitlements
			Murrumbidgee irrigation conveyance	NSW	Entitlement	243,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated River: includes 20,000 ML environmental entitlements
			Regulated river (conveyance)	NSW	Entitlement	2,968	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated River: includes 1,000 ML environmental entitlements
SW7 NSW Murray and Lower Darling	SS18	Lower Darling	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	1,370	NSW Office of Water – Accounting
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	7,633	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes 500 ML environmental entitlements
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	78,099	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes 48,292 ML environmental entitlements
	SS14	NSW Murray	Domestic and stock	NSW	Entitlement	17,183	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river
			High security	NSW	Entitlement	194,443	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river. includes 187,542 ML high security, 47 ML of community and education, 800 ML of research entitlement and 15,841 ML environmental entitlements.
			General security	NSW	Entitlement	1,667,723	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray regulated river: includes 344,538 ML environmental entitlements
			Regulated river (conveyance)	NSW	Entitlement	330,000	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes NSW Murray Regulated river: includes 30,000 ML environmental entitlements
SW3 Northern Victoria	SS4	Ovens	High reliability water share	Vic.	Entitlement	22,477	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Excludes urban Bulk Entitlements but may include some commercial or industrial use.
	SS5	Broken	High reliability water share – Broken (regulated private diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	17,800	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
	SS5	Broken	Low reliability water share – Broken (regulated private diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	3,345	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
	SS6	Goulburn	High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic.	Entitlement	166,068	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe–Rochester area. This includes the environmental entitlement of 5,879 ML used in Campaspe.
			High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic.	Entitlement	638,679	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Shepparton and Central Goulburn irrigation areas
			High reliability water share – Goulburn (regulated river diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	110,619	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
			High reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic.	Entitlement	171,141	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Loddon–Pyramid–Boort irrigation area
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic.	Entitlement	81,788	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	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	407,161	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Shepparton and Central Goulburn irrigation areas
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn (regulated river diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	8,525	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
			Low reliability water share – Goulburn	Vic.	Entitlement	95,437	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	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	31,158	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
	SS7	Campaspe	Low reliability water share (Campaspe District and regulated diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	18,267	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
	SS8	Loddon	High reliability water share – Loddon (regulated diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	22,409	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Entitlement for environment (3,564 ML) is included
	SS8	Loddon	Low reliability water share – Loddon (regulated diverters)	Vic.	Entitlement	9,665	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Entitlement for environment (2,024 ML) is included
SW2 Vic. Murray	SS2	Vic. Murray	High reliability water share – Murray gravity districts and irrigation areas	Vic.	Entitlement	710,023	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
			High reliability water share – Murray private diverters	Vic.	Entitlement	582,146	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Includes 224,510 ML for environment and 9,626 ML for the Lindsay River
			Low reliability water share – Murray gravity districts and irrigation areas	Vic.	Entitlement	268,939	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
			Low reliability water share – Murray private diverters	Vic.	Entitlement	159,055	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Includes 137,447 ML environmental entitlements
SW4 Wimmera–Malee	SS9	Wimmera–Malee	High reliability water share	Vic.	Entitlement	72,520	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Wimmera Mallee water supply system: irrigation (19,000 ML), system losses (11,960 ML) and environment (41,560 ML)
SW5 SA Murray	SS11	SA Murray	Class 1 – stock, domestic and stock and domestic purposes	SA	Entitlement	8,351	SA WAM 2011–12 data	100,438 ML environmental entitlement is included. Entitlements for Class 9 – wetland management is not included.
			Class 3 a – irrigation and holding other than in the Qualco Sunlands groundwater control area (non-swamp irrigation)	SA	Entitlement	518,664	SA WAM 2011–12 data
			Class 3 b – irrigation and holding in the Qualco Sunlands	SA	Entitlement	46,110	SA WAM 2011–12 data
			Class 4 – recreation (recreation and environment)	SA	Entitlement	4,424	SA WAM 2011–12 data
			Class 5 – industrial and industrial dairy (Industrial)	SA	Entitlement	5,520	SA WAM 2011–12 data
			Class 7 – Environment	SA	Entitlement	38,367	SA WAM 2011–12 data
			Class 8 – Environmental Land Management	SA	Entitlement	21,545	SA WAM 2011–12 data
Sub-total Southern Basin						9,926,353
Total for the region						11,889,589

WAM = Water audit monitoring

Other information on values provided in the above table:

As stated in the 'Additional comments' column, 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 2011–12 year.
Queensland entitlement class of supplemented water allocations includes entitlements for urban purpose.

Details of surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion for urban purposes in the MDB region as applicable in the 2011–12 year
WRP area	SDL area		Entitlement class	State/Territory	Limit Type	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year	Data source	Additional comments
WRP area	Code	Name	Entitlement class	State/Territory	Limit Type	Volume (ML) for the 2011–12 year	Data source	Additional comments
SW19 Warrego–Paroo–Nebine	SS28	Warrego	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	0	Qld WAM 2011–12 data
SW18 Condamine–Balonne	SS26	Condamine–Balonne	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	0	Qld WAM 2011–12 data
SW16 Qld Border Rivers	SS24	Qld Border Rivers	Supplemented water allocations – urban	Qld	Nominal	0	Qld WAM 2011–12 data
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
SW10 Macquarie–Castlereagh	SS20	Macquarie–Castlereagh	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	18,805	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Macquarie regulated
*Sub-total Northern Basin*						*42,487*
SW9 Lachlan	SS16	Lachlan	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	15,545	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Lachlan regulated river
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	High security – urban	NSW	Entitlement	19,769	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated river
SW8 Murrumbidgee NSW	SS15	Murrumbidgee NSW	Local water utility	NSW	Entitlement	23,816	NSW Office of Water – Accounting	Includes Murrumbidgee regulated river
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
	SS14	NSW Murray	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	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Oxley, Moyhu, Wangaratta
	SS5	Broken	Urban bulk entitlements – Broken	Vic.	Entitlement	2,324	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Benalla
	SS6	Goulburn	Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn 'channel'	Vic.	Entitlement	133	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	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 2011–12 data	Water sourced from the Goulburn and used in the Campaspe
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn 'channel'	Vic.	Entitlement	7,058	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Shepparton and Central Goulburn irrigation areas
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn 'river'	Vic.	Entitlement	26,284	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
			Urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn 'channel'	Vic	Entitlement	890	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	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 2011–12 data	Domestic, stock, commercial and industrial – Coliban System (from Malmsbury, Lauriston and Eppalock)
			Urban bulk entitlements – Campaspe 'channel'	Vic.	Entitlement	1,530	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Includes Rochester and Lockington supplied via Campaspe channel
			Urban bulk entitlements – Campaspe regulated river	Vic.	Entitlement	215	Vic WAM 2011–12 data	Axedale and Goornong supplies
	SS8	Loddon	Urban bulk entitlements – Loddon	Vic.	Entitlement	3,890	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
SW2 Vic. Murray	SS2	Vic. Murray	Urban bulk entitlements – regulated	Vic.	Entitlement	48,542	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
SW2 Vic. Murray	SS2	Vic. Murray	Domestic and stock, urban supplies – Northern Mallee	Vic.	Entitlement	3,242	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
SW4 Wimmera–Malee	SS9	Wimmera–Malee	Domestic, stock, town and industrial supplies	Vic.	Entitlement	47,310	Vic WAM 2011–12 data
SW5 SA Murray	SS11	SA Murray	Class 6 – Urban water use(Metropolitan Adelaide and associated country areas)	SA	Entitlement	130,000	SA WAM 2011–12 data	Five-year rolling average volume
SW5 SA Murray	SS11	SA Murray	Class 2 – Urban water use (SA country towns)	SA	Entitlement	50,000	SA WAM 2011–12 data
SW1 ACT	SS1	ACT	ACTEW – Dam extractions	ACT	Entitlement	70,000	ACT WAM 2011–12 data
Sub-total Southern Basin						555,816
Total for the region						598,303

WAM = Water audit monitoring

Quantification approach

Data source

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

Provided by

Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau).

Method

Values originated from jurisdictional water sharing plans were extracted from 'Data source' (See two breakdown tables provided under 'Supporting information').

Assumptions, limitations, caveats and approximations

See 'Additional comments' in the breakdown tables in 'Supporting information'.

Uncertainty information

The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.

Comparative year

This line item corresponds to line item 32.3 'Surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion' reported in the 2011 Account. The following changes resulted in the restatement of the 2010–11 year volume:

changes in presentation and classification of the line items (regrouping)
scope change
error correction
updated information.

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 allocated diversions
2011 Account line item	Segment	Volume at 30 June 2011 reported in the 2012 Account (ML)	Volume at 30 June 2011 reported in the 2011 Account (ML)	Difference due to various reasons (ML)
32.3 Surface water access entitlement for allocation diversion	Northern Basin	2,007,983	2,016,603	-8,620
	Southern Basin	10,613,978	10,496,024	117,954
	Whole region	12,621,961	12,512,627	109,334

Presentation and classification change was due to:

excluding 6,676 ML reported in the 2011 Account for unsupplemented water entitlements for Condamine–Balonne SDL area
excluding 1,944 ML reported in the 2011 Account for unsupplemented water entitlements for Queensland Border Rivers SDL area.

The scope change was due to:

including classes 7, 8 and 9 entitlements for SA Murray in the 2012 Account. Resulting increase for the 2010–11 year was 259,912 ML.

Prior period error correction was due to:

reducing urban bulk entitlements – Goulburn 'river' for Goulburn SDL area reported in the 2011 Account by 9,703 ML
reducing high and low reliability water share (regulated diverters) for Loddon SDL area by 5,730 ML due to double-counting of environmental entitlements in the 2011 Account.

Updated information has resulted in:

increasing classes 1 and 3 entitlements reported in the 2011 Account for SA Murray by 73,475 ML.

Murray–Darling Basin32.3 Surface water access entitlement for allocated diversions