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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/or groundwater licences.
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. This fee is for ensuring compliance, measuring use and, where installed, maintaining meters at each diversion site:
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- 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.
Service Point Fee – Water Supply is a fee for operating and maintaining service points which connect your property to our assets in your water supply district.
Service Point Fee – Water Delivery is a fee for operating and maintaining service points (meters and outlets) which connect your property to our assets in your irrigation district. This fee applies for each of the following service points:
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- Domestic and Stock (D&S) fee 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.
Termination Fee is fee charged to a customer who holds a delivery share upon termination of all or part of that share.
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 Register Fee is a fee for storing your records on the Victorian Water Register (Register) and is levied based on the number of your water entitlements. Examples of water entitlements are bulk entitlement, water share, section 51 licence, supply by agreement and water district water allowance. This fee is payable by all customers with water entitlements stored on the Register.
Water Use Fee is a fee for operating, maintaining and renewing the drainage network (including subsurface drainage services) in your irrigation district.