Mokoan Project
The Minister for Water has approved applications from each of the River Murray and Broken System bulk entitlement holders to amend their bulk entitlement Orders. The amendments were required to reflect the decommissioning of Lake Mokoan, the new operational arrangements for the Victorian Mid-Murray Storages and the resulting new environmental commitments for the Snowy and Murray Rivers.
The Mokoan Project was foreshadowed in the Victorian Government White Paper (Securing our Water Future Together, 2004) and has secured 50 billion litres of long-term water savings, which will be transferred to existing environmental bulk entitlements as part of Victoria’s contribution to the Living Murray and the Snowy Initiatives.
The following amendment Orders came into effect on 26 November 2009 after being published in Victorian Government Gazette No.G 48:
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray - Goulburn-Murray Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Lower Murray Urban and Rural Water - Urban) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Lower Murray Urban and Rural Water - Irrigation) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – First Mildura Irrigation Trust) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Goulburn Valley Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Flora & Fauna) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – North East Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray - Coliban Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (River Murray – Snowy Environmental Reserve) Further Amending Order (2) 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (Broken System - Goulburn-Murray Water) Conversion Further Amending Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (Broken System – Tungamah, Devenish & St James – North East Water) Conversion Further Amendment Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
- Bulk Entitlement (Broken System – Snowy Environmental Reserve) Revocation Order 2009 (PDF~2.1mb)
Further information on these bulk entitlement amendments can be obtained from the DSE Customer Service Centre on 136 186. Further background on the Mokoan Project can be found on the Mokoan Project website.