Allocations Increased in Goulburn and Bullarook Systems

Determination Data

Seasonal determinations for northern Victoria regulated river systems.

Further Information

Goulburn-Murray Water (G‑MW), the resource manager for northern Victorian water systems, today announced allocation increases for the Goulburn and Bullarook systems. Allocations in all other systems remain unchanged.

The seasonal allocation in the Goulburn system is 50% HRWS, which is an increase of 1%. The Bullarook system allocation is 11% HRWS, an increase of 5%.

Graeme Hannan, G-MW's Resource Manager said, "the increases announced today have come from small contributions from a range of sources up to the end of December. For the Goulburn system storage losses were lower than the provision for December.  On the Murray system inflows were in line with earlier forecasts for December and an increased provision for river losses has been made consistent with the expected higher regulated flows.  The Bullarook system has benefited from lower than planned storage releases which have translated into a small allocation increase.  However, the benefit from the rainfall on the 1^st and 2^nd of January is still to be fully assessed and any improvements for water allocations will be confirmed next week."

The seasonal allocations for northern Victorian water systems on Monday 4 January 2010 are:

The next allocation announcement will be issued on Friday 15 January 2010.