This page shows ‘hot links’ that provide valuable and popular information for irrigators and the broader irrigation community in northern Vic, southern NSW and Gippsland
Upcoming irrigation water availability
Nowadays, irrigation water availability and price, is influenced not only by the water allocation in your district, but by water allocations in other […]
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 […]
