Given the dry irrigation season, many Macalister Irrigation District irrigators have queried why there has been no seasonal district-wide adjustment to Annual Use Limit (AUL).
Annual use limits set a total amount of water that can be applied per hectare and ensure that farm irrigation practices limit the off-farm impacts of […]
Irrigators may be faced with reduced water allocations at some stage in the future. In this situation a range of decisions may need to be made including:
the purchase of additional water (at a likely elevated value);
prioritise water onto preferred patches;
giving other patches reduced volumes with consequent reductions […]
Determinations
Every season, entitlement holders who hold high and low-reliability water shares receive a percentage of those shares.
The percentage depends on seasonal conditions and the volume of water held in the storage that is available to distribute – this percentage of the shares is called a seasonal determination.
Seasonal determinations are updated […]
