Irrigator E-News 15 April 2010

15 April 2010

Customer Meetings

This year you have more options to use, trade and carryover your water than ever before. To understand these new opportunities and help you make the right decisions for your farm business come along to a G-MW customer information meeting in your local area

Topics covered include: seasonal outlooks, water trading, pricing, carryover, spillable water accounts, the water trading ballot, dairy washdown amnesty, end of season issues and more....

Informal meetings will run for approximately 2 hours and are free to attend. For dates and locations please see your area section below.

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Carryover

Carryover allows you to carryover your allocations and water purchases from one season for use in the next season.  It allows you to manage risks for your business and plan with certainty - you know you will have water for use* or trade at the start of the next season 

Improvement to 2010/11 carryover for the Goulburn, Campaspe and Murray systems

1. All water in your Allocation Bank Account (ABA) linked to water shares on 30 June will automatically carryover

2. You can chose to start the season with the equivalent of a 100% allocation on your high and low reliability water shares - to trade or use*.

3.  There are some new concepts

o  Spillable Water Account (SWA)- If you carryover allocation equivalent to more than 100% of your high and low reliability water shares, the extra water is quarantined in a SWA until the declaration is made or the storage spills. If the storages fill completely, water in SWAs will be the first water to spill - this protects the existing entitlements

o  Declaration - A declaration is made by the Water Resource Manager when there is a low risk of this spill happening.

4. If your ABA is linked to low and high reliability water shares, your carryover is recorded against your low then high reliability shares. > More Information

* trading rules and/or system operations permitting

Ovens, King, Broken, Bullarook and Loddon systems carryover rules are the same for the 2010/11 season. >More Information       

Groundwater Carryover: Carryover rules are being established for a small number of groundwater management Areas. The rules will be communicated to these customers before the end of the season.

New Reserve Policy Goulburn and Murray System

A new reserve policy for the Goulburn system will come into effect in the 2010/11 season with the benefits realised in 2011/12. A similar policy will be introduced in the Murray system in 2011/12. Existing reserve polices remain in all other systems including Broken, Bullarook, Campaspe and Loddon.

The new Reserve policy will allow you to plan with certainty. Modelling in the NRSWS for the Goulburn System shows there will be a starting allocation, and the system can operate to deliver allocation and carryover even under the most extreme modelled climate change scenarios.

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WaterLINE Online

Over 40% of customers are already making use of our online water ordering service WaterLINE and enjoying the extra features including 

• Viewing demand on your channel to see when capacity is available,
• Checking the balance of your ABA
• Personally inputting meter reading to better manage accounts
• Leaving messages for G-MW's planners 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

If you would like to learn about these exciting new features visit your local Office and we will walk you through it. To see WaterLINE online in action go to http://waterline.g-mwater.com.au

Plan Your Winter Needs

Please ensure you arrange for adequate on farm storage for all your winter water requirements as it is not possible to rely on channels as a source of water during the winter period. Even if your channel has retained water over winter in the past, current operational and maintenance requirements may result in all the water being lowered and making it inaccessible.

Water Trading Ballot

On 12 July 2010 a ballot will take place to determine the processing order for applications  for 2010/11.  The ballot is required because it is anticipated that there will be large volumes of applications to trade water out of the irrigation areas.  Applicants are reminded that the ballot only determines the order for processing applications it doesn't determine whether they are successful

Applications for the ballot will be only be accepted from Monday 21 June to Friday 9 July with all applications submitted during this period will be deemed to have been received on the same date.  Any applications submitted before or after this period or submitted in previous ballots will not be included in the 2010/11 ballot.

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For your Diary

Murray North-East Operations (Murray Valley)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

For further information phone G-MW Cobram office on 5871 0100 or G-MW Wangaratta office on 5723 2501

Goulburn-Broken Operations (Shepparton)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

For further information phone the G-MW Shepparton office on 5832 9900

Central Goulburn Operations (Central Goulburn)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

For further information phone the G-MW Tatura office on 5833 5705

Campaspe Operations (Rochester-Campaspe)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

For further information phone the G-MW Rochester office on 5484 0400

Campaspe groundwater customers will soon receive a letter explaining the end of season meter reads for groundwater bores in the Campaspe Deep Lead system. Reads will be completed by 21 May. If you wish to use water from your bore between 21 May and 31 June you must advise G-MW prior to 26 June. A sticker will be placed on the meter to advise customers when the final read has taken place.

Loddon Operations (Pyramid-Boort)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

Central Murray Operations (Torrumbarry)

Customer Meeting dates and locations

For further information phone the G-MW Kerang office on 5451 0111 

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