There’s been an increase in high reliability water shares (HRWS) in the Murray and Goulburn systems, after good rain in the catchments.
Goulburn-Murray Water’s northern Victorian resource manager Mark Bailey has release the latest update for the 2016/17 seasonal determinations.
The Murray system has increased by increases by 23 per cent to 24pc of HRWS, while the Goulburn has jumped 17pc, to 25 per cent HRWS.
Seasonal determinations in the Broken, Campaspe, Loddon and Bullarook systems remained unchanged on zero pc.
Dr Bailey said recent rainfall was continuing to increase water resource availability across northern Victoria.
“The catchments are very responsive to rain and sending good flows into the major storages,” Dr Bailey said. “The increases in the Murray and Goulburn seasonal determinations are a result of the volume of water received by the major storages following recent rainfall.
“Storage levels in the Broken, Campaspe, Loddon and Bullarook systems are increasing. Although the seasonal determinations are zero, operating reserves are nearly established. This is reducing the risk that carried over allocation in these systems will not be deliverable across the entire season,” Dr Bailey said.
The seasonal determinations for northern Victorian water systems on Friday, July 15 are:
Allocation trade from New South Wales to Victoria was limited to the lesser of a net annual volume of 200 GL, or a volume that keeps the risk of spill in the Murray system below 50pc.
The limit was currently defined by the volume needed to keep the risk of spill in the Murray system below 50 per cent. The net trade allowed from New South Wales to Victoria is 39 GL.
Trading opportunities from New South Wales to Victoria are next updated on August 10, 2016.
The Goulburn system’s inter-valley trade (IVT) account now owes about 95 GL to the Murray system.
The Goulburn, Campaspe and Loddon systems can trade to the Victorian Murray system, New South Wales and South Australia while the total volume owed to the Murray system is less than 200 GL.
The Goulburn, Campaspe and Loddon systems can trade from the Victorian Murray system, New South Wales and South Australia while the total volume owed to the Murray system is greater than zero.
