Murray–Darling Basin
40.1 Groundwater allocation trade within region

Supporting information

Groundwater allocation trade is permitted within the Murray–Darling Basin region; the reported volume for the 2012–13 year was 74,858 ML. The following table provides details of the trades.  All the trades provided in the following table were within respective water resource plan areas.

 

Groundwater allocation trade during the year 2012–13

Groundwater resource plan area

State

 Volume (ML) for the 2012–13 year

GW21 Condamine-Balonne

Qld

1,146

GW15 Gwydir Alluvium

NSW

4,813

GW14 Namoi Alluvium

NSW

5,717

GW13 New South Wales Great Artesian Basin Shallow

NSW

480

GW12 Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium

NSW

2,525

Sub–total Northern Basin 

14,681

GW 11 Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock

NSW

181

GW10 Lachlan Alluvium

NSW

10,165

GW9 Murrumbidgee Alluvium

NSW

26,958

GW8 Murray Alluvium

NSW

11,017

GW6 Western Porous Rock

NSW

387

GW2 Goulburn-Murray and GW3 Wimmera-Mallee (groundwater)

Vic.

11,469

Sub–total Southern Basin

60,177

Total for the region

74,858

Quantification approach

Data source

National Water Commission's water trading data for the 2012–13 year.

Provided by

Bureau of Meteorology.

Method

Groundwater allocation trade volume for each water resource plan area was extracted from National Water Commission's water trading database for the 2012–13 year.

Assumptions, limitations, caveats and approximations

Nil.

Uncertainty information

The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.