Our Price List 2024/25

Notice is hereby given by the Goulburn-Murray Rural Water Corporation (GMW) of the making of a resolution setting and adopting the fees and charges in this Price List and Schedule of Charges (Schedule).

All fees and charges are set for services and works provided by GMW for the period 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 except as otherwise provided. All prices are exempt from GST.

Annual Fees and Charges

Valid from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025.

Water Delivery Fees and Charges

Goulburn Murray Irrigation District

Surface Drainage Fees and Charges  ³   

Goulburn Murray Irrigation District

Subsurface Drainage Fees and Charges  ⁴   

Goulburn Murray Irrigation District

Nyah Irrigation District

Tresco Irrigation District

Miscellaneous Fees and Charges

Groundwater Fees and Charges

Regulated Rivers and Streams

Unregulated Rivers and Streams

Recreation and Land Management Miscellaneous Fees

Fixed Annual Fees and Charges

When are fees payable?

1. Payment Options
   Pay in full by 16 December 2024. We are also offering instalment options for 2024/25 Fixed Charges Accounts. Pay 8 equal instalments of 12.5% on the 16th of each month, starting on 16 September 2024 with the final payment due on 16 April 2025.
2. Concessions
   There is a Victorian Government concession available upon application, to eligible persons for the services defined in the Concession (Water Corporation) Order 2013 (as amended from time to time). The Water Concession is 50% on the Fixed Charges Accounts, with a maximum cap for 2024/25 set at $181.50.
3. Annual Licence Fees must be paid by 30 June 2024.

Variable Fees

1. Applies only to Above Entitlement Storage.

Miscellaneous Fees and Charges

Miscellaneous fees and charges are payable on application.

Interest

Interest shall be payable in respect to all amounts payable under a fee or charge if the amount is not paid by the due date. The interest rate applicable to amounts not paid by the due date calculated in accordance with the Water Act 1989 (Vic) is 6.2% for the 2024/25 Financial Year. Prior to applying interest we will inform the customer when interest is to be applied to the outstanding amounts. Interest will not be payable on overdue account balances by customers who enter into and comply with a payment arrangement. This applies for balances from a prior period where a payment arrangement is still in force. Payments are applied on the following basis: Legal costs owing (if any); Interest owing (if any); Arrears owing (if any); Current rates and charges (divided evenly across all charges), unless otherwise requested by the owner.

How our Fees and Charges are Determined

Further Information

For further information in relation to your fees and charges, please also see our Customer Charter at www.gmwater.com.au/customer-charter

Enquires

If you have any questions or wish to dispute your bill, please phone 1800 013 357 or for other options, please visit our website at www.gmwater.com.au/feedback or email complaintsmgtsys@gmwater.com.au

Understanding Your Fees and Charges

Above Entitlement Storage Fee is payable by customers who hold more water in storage than their entitlement volume.

Access Fee is a fee for the service of ensuring water is accessed according to the Corporation’s rules and plans. This includes water ordering, rosters and restrictions, interference management and compliance with other requirements of rules and plans. The fee is payable by customers with surface water and/or groundwater licences.

Area Fee is a fee for the service of operating, maintaining and renewing the drainage network (including subsurface drainage services) that services your irrigation district. This fee is payable by customers in the irrigation districts.

Bulk Water Entitlement Fees are payable for the storage and the delivery of water to Irrigation Infrastructure Operators, operators of reticulated water systems, and customers who divert bulk water directly from a watercourse for use and is made available through a service that is provided for the storage or delivery of water that is primarily stored or delivered on river relating to the Murray-Darling Basin. These fees are payable only by customers with bulk entitlements or environmental entitlements.

Capital Charge for New Groundwater Entitlement relates to the sale of a groundwater entitlement. This is a one-off charge per megalitre where space is available under management area groundwater caps. See www.gmwater.com.au/capital-charges for more information on the Capital Charge for New Groundwater Entitlement.

Casual Infrastructure Use Fee is a fee for each ML of water you have delivered during the season in excess of your Annual Delivery Allowance.

Community Surface Drainage Fee is a fee for administering the community surface drainage scheme in your Irrigation area. This fee is payable by the owner of a property within an Irrigation district or Irrigation area, who is a participant in a community surface drainage scheme.

Customer Fee is a fee for maintaining your land and water records, billing, debt management and central customer service. This fee is payable by all of our customers.

Delivery Share Reservation Fee is a fee applied to landowners in irrigation districts who choose to reserve access to delivery systems for a limited period while they are developing or expanding agricultural enterprises.

Distribution Access Fee is equivalent to the Infrastructure Access Fee but is payable by an urban water corporation whose bulk water is delivered by irrigation and/or water supply districts.

Distribution Use Fee is equivalent to the Infrastructure Use Fee but is payable by an urban water corporation whose bulk water is delivered by irrigation and/or water supply districts.

Drainage Diversion Site Fee is a fee for managing, maintaining and renewing drain diversion service points in your irrigation district. This fee is payable by customers in the irrigation districts.

Entitlement Storage Fee is a fee for operating and maintaining water storages that service your regulated river system. The costs are charged per ML of the type of entitlement you hold. This fee is payable by customers with water shares for regulated rivers.

Event Fees are charges for private, community or commercial events on or near GMW’s waterways and are charged per day. See www.gmwater.com.au/recreation-tourism/event-permits for more information on Event Fees.

Excess Fee is a fee for the number of megalitres supplied that exceeds the Seasonal Water Allowance.

Flood Protection Fee relates to the Loch Garry structure mitigating flooding for a defined area. This fee applies for each hectare in the Loch Garry area for the costs of operating and maintaining the structure. This fee is payable by all customers in the Loch Garry district.

Groundwater Application Fees are payable in relation to applications for licences to undertake works relating to groundwater or to take and use groundwater.

Houseboats Fees relate to applications for a licence and holding a houseboat licence at Lake Eildon. See www.gmwater.com.au/recreation-tourism/houseboats for more information on Houseboats fees.

Information Statements and Special Meter Reading Fees are payable in relation to applications for information on the Water Register.

Infrastructure Access Fee is calculated on the amount of MLs per day of delivery share you hold and it is a fee for operating, maintaining and renewing the delivery network in your irrigation area. The delivery network can include channels, pipes, bridges, road crossings, siphons and subways. This fee is payable by irrigation and Domestic & Stock customers with delivery shares.

Infrastructure Use Fee is a fee for operating, maintaining and renewing the delivery network in your irrigation area. The fee applies per ML of water used during the season on your property. This fee is payable by irrigation and Domestic & Stock customers with delivery shares.

Irrigation Districts Application Fees are miscellaneous fees and charges applicable to the Murray Valley, Shepparton, Central Goulburn, Rochester, Loddon Valley and Torrumbarry irrigation districts.

Municipal Area Fee is a fee for the costs of operating, maintaining and renewing the drainage network that services the municipal area from local government entities.

Place of Take approval authorises an allocation account holder to take water from the identified approved place (at the service point), subject to any terms and conditions on the general place of take approval. For river diverters, the general place of take approval includes the holder’s extraction share (notional rationing rate).

Private Dam Fees are fees and charges related to applications for the registration of privately-owned farm dams or licences to take water from privately-owned farm dams.

Recreation and Land Management Miscellaneous Fees are miscellaneous fees and charges relating to applications for licences, works permits, land developments and other additional fees.

Regulated Rivers and Streams Application Fees are miscellaneous fees and charges related to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority or GMW’s weirs, storages or dams on the river system to control the flow of water.

Resource Management Fee is a fee for developing, managing and reviewing resource management plans for unregulated surface water and groundwater. This fee is payable by customers with unregulated surface water and groundwater licences.

Regional Urban Storage Ancillary Fee is a fee for managing the recreational component of storages which are not recovered by leasing and licensing fees. This fee is payable by Urban Water Corporations who hold bulk water entitlements.

Subsurface Drainage Fee is a fee for providing subsurface drainage services in your irrigation district. This fee is payable by customers in the irrigation districts.

Service Point Fee – Diversions.  Applicable to Surface Water and Groundwater Diverters (except Shepparton Irrigation Region Groundwater Diverters). The fee is for operating and maintaining service points, including measuring use and maintaining compliant meters:

• Service Point Fee – Unmetered is a fee applicable to service points that do not have a meter installed, or are used only for domestic and stock purposes.
• Service Point Fee – Metered (excluding domestic and stock) is a fee applicable to service points where a meter is installed and is used for purposes other than domestic and stock.

These fees are payable by customers with surface water licences and/or groundwater licences.

• Domestic and Stock (D&S) is a fee for operating and maintaining domestic and stock service points.
• Local Operate means a service point that is operated manually on site by customers and the meter readings are collected by GMW either remotely or by site visit.
• Remote Operate is a fee for a service point with electronic features that is automatically operated and the meter reading is automatically recorded.

These fees are payable by irrigation and D&S customers.

Technical Advice for High Risk or Complex Applications Fee is charged for advice provided by GMW regarding high risk or complex licence applications. For example, this fee may be charged in relation to obtaining additional information such as a report of Hydrological and/or Ecological assessments for unregulated surface water applications.

Termination Fee is a fee charged to a customer who holds a delivery share upon termination of all or part of that share.

Unregulated Rivers and Streams Application Fees are miscellaneous fees and charges when the flow in the river or stream is not controlled by Murray-Darling Basin Authority or GMW’s weirs, storages or dams.

Water Allowance Storage Fee is a fee for operating and maintaining the water storages that store water for water supply districts. This fee is payable by water supply customers.

Water Share and Allocation Applications relate to applications to transfer, divide, consolidate, issue, cancel, vary etc. water share and/or water allocations.

Water Supply District Application Fees are miscellaneous fees and charges applicable to the Tungamah, East Loddon, East Loddon North, West Loddon, Normanville and Mitiamo districts.

Our customers

We provide services and works to:

• Irrigation customers
• D&S customers
• Environmental watering customers
• Urban water supply customers
• Water investment customers
• Flood protection customers
• Recreation customers
• Commercial leasing customers
• Farm dam registrations and Private Rights customers
• Contract services customers
• Power generation customers
• Water District customers
• Drainage customers
• Groundwater customers

Water resource

Our annual and miscellaneous fees and charges relate to Murray-Darling Basin water resources.

Notes

1. 1. Infrastructure fees for water delivery in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District (excluding Woorinen) are set for the period 15 August 2024 to 15 May 2025.
   2. These fees are indicative: The figures shown will generally apply to terminations requested to apply within 6 months of a customer submitting a written information request. For terminations requested to apply more than 6 months after the written information request is submitted, the termination fee will be the fee that is applicable at the date of termination and calculated in accordance with Part 10 of the Water Charge Rules 2010 (Cth) as at the termination. This termination fee will form part of the Termination Information Statement given to the customer.
   3. Prices applied only relate to the ‘Area Fee’ and ‘Water Use’ Fee. There are 8 Drainage Divisions. The Fees listed are for the 1st Division. Adjustments are made for other Divisions as applicable. Please refer to the ‘Tariff Procedures’ on our website: www.gmwater.com.au/pricing
   4. Prices applied are for Service Level A / Drainage Division 1. Adjustments are made for various Service Levels / Divisions in the applicable Areas. Please refer to the ‘Tariff Procedures’ on our website: www.gmwater.com.au/pricing
   5. Regulated Waterways are a natural system of streams, creeks and rivers that are controlled or ‘regulated’ water storages, enabling water to be released when it is required. These fees are payable by customers with regulated surface water licences.
   6. These fees apply to water in unregulated waterways and other unregulated surface water. These fees are payable by customers with unregulated surface water licenses.
   7. These fees are applicable to groundwater diverters and payable by customers with groundwater licences.
   8. East Loddon North and West Loddon prices applied for Infrastructure Access and Water Allowance Storage are as per Division 1. There are 4 Divisions and adjustments are made for the other Divisions as applicable. Please refer to the ‘Tariff Procedures’ on our website: www.gmwater.com.au/pricing
   9. These fees are prescribed under the Water (Lake Eildon Recreational Area) (Houseboats) Regulations 2024 (Vic).
   10. The Water Share and Allocation Application fees recover the application fees prescribed by the Water (Resource Management) Regulations 2017 (Vic). These fees are collected by GMW but payable to the Department.
   11. Water (Resource Management) Regulations 2017 (Vic).

Past price lists

In accordance with sections 260 and 264 of the Water Act 1989, Goulburn-Murray Rural Water Corporation is required to advertise annual tariffs and any tariff changes.

The tariffs are set for services and works provided by the Corporation for the financial year periods, with some specific exceptions noted within individual advertisements.

Please contact  reception@gmwater.com.au to request copies of GMW's Price Lists from previous years.