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Map of SDL projects

Locations are indicative only and the map is not supported by spatial data. The Commonwealth efficiency projects are not included in this map

 

Map reference

Project title

Proponent state(s)

1

South East Flows restoration project

South Australia
2 Flows for the future South Australia
3 South Australian Riverland Floodplain Integrated Infrastructure Program (SARFIIP) South Australia
4 Riverine recovery  project South Australia
5 Chowilla Floodplain TLM project South Australia / New South Wales / Victoria
6 South Australian Murray key focus area South Australia
7 Lindsay Island (Stage 1) Upper Lindsay watercourse enhancement TLM project Victoria / New South Wales / South Australia
8 Lindsay Island (Stage 2) floodplain management project Victoria
9 Mulcra Island environmental flows TLM project Victoria / New South Wales / South Australia
10 SDL offsets in the Lower Murray (New South Wales) New South Wales
11 Wallpolla Island floodplain management project Victoria
12 Hattah Lakes North floodplain management project Victoria
13 Hattah Lakes environmental flows TLM project Victoria / New South Wales / South Australia
14 Belsar–Yungera floodplain management project Victoria
15 Burra Creek floodplain management proposal Victoria
16 Vinifera floodplain management project Victoria
17 Nyah floodplain management project Victoria
18 Guttrum and Benwell State forests floodplain environmental works project Victoria
19 Murray and Murrumbidgee Valley national parks SDL adjustment supply measure New South Wales
20 Gunbower Forest TLM project Victoria / New South Wales / South Australia
21 Gunbower national park floodplain management project Victoria
22 Flexible rates of fall in river levels downstream of Hume Dam Victoria / New South Wales
23 TLM environmental works and measures — Koondrook–Perricoota Forest flood enhancement proposal New South Wales / Victoria / South Australia
24 Barmah–Millewa Forest environmental water allocation  Victoria / New South Wales
25 New Goulburn key focus area* Victoria
26 Yarrawonga to Wakool junction key focus area New South Wales
27 Improved regulation of the River Murray** Victoria / New South Wales
28 Hume to Yarrawonga key focus area Victoria / New South Wales
29 Hume Dam airspace management and pre-release rules Victoria / New South Wales
30 2011 Snowy water licence schedule 4 amendments to River Murray increased flow call out provisions New South Wales / Victoria
31 Enhanced environmental water delivery (hydro cues) New South Wales / Victoria / South Australia
32 Nimmie Caira infrastructure modifications proposals New South Wales
33 Modernising supply systems for effluent creeks - Murrumbidgee River New South Wales
34 Improved flow management works at the Murrumbidgee River — Yanco Creek offtake New South Wales
35 Computer Aided River Management (CARM) Murrumbidgee New South Wales
36 Murrumbidgee key focus area New South Wales
37 Structural and operational changes at Menindee Lakes, including the Lower Darling key focus area constraint project New South Wales
n/a On farm irrigation efficiency and other water use efficiences*** Commonwealth program
n/a Urban or industrial and mining areas water efficiency Commonwealth program

*submitted as a constraint project only and not modelled as part of the SDL adjustment determination

**not modelled as part of the SDL adjustment determination

***efficiency projects are not location specific and operate across the basin

 

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Map of projects to adjust sustainable diversion limits 

Updated: 15 Sep 2020

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