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The Andrews Labor Government has announced new trade and operating rules for the Goulburn River that will protect irrigators’ ability to trade the water they need while improving the health of the river.
Acting Water Minister Richard Wynne said the rules will protect the river from prolonged high flows over summer and autumn, while ensuring traded water can be delivered without increasing risks to Murray water users.
The interim trade rule for 2021-22 and extension of interim operating arrangements for another 12 months were set following extensive community consultation, which is summarised in the Closing the Loop report.
The interim trade rule will mean trade is capped after December 15 this year – with the inter-valley trade account run down by the end of the season, which is critical to support the following year’s trade for irrigators.
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Five projects set to accelerate Basin Plan
Implementation of the Murray Darling Basin Plan has shifted up a gear, following agreement between the Commonwealth and Basin states.
Minister for Water, Property and Housing Melinda Pavey has announced details of the five accelerated key Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) projects agreed to at last week’s Murray Darling Ministerial Council meeting.
The projects being proposed for acceleration include the:
Sustainable Diversion Limit offsets in the Lower Murray: Locks 8 & 9 Project
Yanco Creek Modernisation Project (Modernising Supply Systems for Effluent Creeks Project)
Murrumbidgee & Murray National Park Project
Koondrook-Perricoota Flow Enabling Works (part of the Constraints Measures Program)
Record numbers of blood-sucking lamprey fish in Murray River system in Australia
29 Apr, 2021 05:32 AM
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Scientists have found an endangered native fish in record numbers in the Murray River system, which is great news for the environment and lamprey fish. Photo / Getty Images
Scientists have found an endangered native fish in record numbers in the Murray River system, which is great news for the environment and lamprey fish. Photo / Getty Images
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By: Evin Priest
An ancient, blood-sucking fish has made a comeback from near-extinction after record numbers were monitored in the Murray River system in southeastern Australia last year.
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The Millennium Drought was between 2001 – 2010, with the worst period between 2007 and 2010 with no freshwater flow from the River Murray to the Coorong and ocean.
This stopped the migration of adult lamprey from the Southern Ocean to the River Murray, where the lampreys return to their own birthplace to breed, lay eggs and then die. There were no freshwater flows to the ocean from the River Murray at the Lower Murray barrages for almost three years, Adrienne Rumbelow from the Department for Environment and Water South Australia said. You need winter flows that are allowed to travel from source to sea . If you don t get these things right you won t get migration and spawning.
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