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Inter-Valley Trade with Lower Darling is now open
The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment has lifted the Lower- Darling inter-valley trade restriction.
This means that Lower Darling licence holders can now trade with the wider southern connected system, in accordance with well-established water trading rules.
When the Lower Darling regulated river is being managed for drought security, trade into and from the valley is closed by NSW. Trade during this time is limited to transactions between eligible licence holders within the Lower Darling valley only.
However, now that the Menindee Lakes system holds more than 640 gigalitres of water, and has become a shared River Murray resource, it is appropriate that inter-valley trade be allowed.
The upper house has rejected the scheme to license irrigators’ extraction during floods while a federal agency has dismissed the government’s river plans.
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Blue-green algae red alert issued across NSW waterways
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MarMarch 2021 at 12:40am
Water NSW has issued red alerts for Lake Burrinjuck and several other dams and waterways in NSW.
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Large blooms of toxic blue-green algae in the Murray-Darling Basin and Northern Rivers has prompted Water NSW to issue a red alert health warning for river users and livestock.
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Blue-green algae spreading across several dams and rivers in NSW, has prompted the highest health warning
After years of drought in NSW, a wet summer has washed dead vegetation into inland waterways nutrients and warm sunny days feed the algae