Water Regulations 2008

Responsibilities for: Goulburn-Murray Rural Water Corporation (Goulburn-Murray Water) ( VIC )

Licence status:

Category of Persons:

This organisation is listed in the Water Regulations under:

Category D - owners or operators of major storages
Category E - rural water utilities
Category H - providers of water information for flood forecasting and warning

Your Summary Report

Water information is classified into nine categories; each category is further divided into subcategories: http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/categoriesWaterAuxNav.shtml

Under the Water Regulations 2008, the Goulburn-Murray Rural Water Corporation (Goulburn-Murray Water) ( VIC ) is required to provide the following categories of information to the Bureau of Meteorology.

New and historical water information are explained at: http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/regulationAuxNav.shtml#waterInfo

Summary Report – for providing New / Ongoing Water Information

Water information to provide

Water storage information

3a: Level of water in a major storage, expressed in metres

3b: Volume of water in a major storage, expressed in megalitres

3c: Volume of water released from a major storage, expressed in megalitres

3d: Total volume of water delivered to a major storage, expressed in megalitres

3da: Volume of water delivered to a major storage from each water source, expressed in megalitres

3f: A list of major storages owned, operated or regulated by the person required to give the information

Water use information

5b: Volume of surface water take for irrigation networks in each water management area, expressed in megalitres

5c: Volume of surface water returned from irrigation networks to a watercourse in each water management area, expressed in megalitres

5d: Volume of surface water take (excluding take for irrigation networks) in each water management area, expressed in megalitres

5e: Volume of water delivered to a surface water resource through inter-basin transfer (excluding transfers relating to water trades) in each water management area, expressed in megalitres

Information about water rights, allocations and trades

6b: Trades or leases of Australian water access entitlements and irrigation rights

6c: Trades of Australian water allocations

6d: Formal announcements of Australian water allocations

Water information for flood warning purposes

11a: Level of a watercourse, expressed in metres

11b: Discharge of a watercourse, expressed in cumecs

11c: Accumulated precipitation depth, including the water-equivalent precipitation depth, expressed in millimetres

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