Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure Program

The Restoring Murray Waterways (RMW) supply measure aims to improve the health and connectivity of floodplain ecosystems by utilising upgraded Murray Irrigation Limited (MIL) infrastructure to facilitate higher flows of the Edward-Wakool River system. This will improve eco-system functioning and connectivity to the Murray River with higher water efficiency, providing local ecological and economic benefits and increasing system capacity to meet environmental demands in the mid to lower Murray. Higher utilisation rates for MIL infrastructure will also improve long term viability of the network.

This Schedule will support the delivery of elements of the Victorian Supply Measures – Environmental Works Program (the Program). 

The Program aims to return a more natural flooding regime across sites of high ecological value across the Murray River floodplain. 

The Program will achieve this through strategic flooding of the landscapes through easements, acquisition of land and infrastructure. This will improve the connectivity between the Murray floodplains and adaptive management of the floodplains to cater for the complex inter-dependency of ecological systems.

Stage 2 (Hattah Lakes North, Nyah and Vinifera)

This Schedule will provide funding to Victoria for construction delivery at three sites (Hattah Lakes North, Nyah and Vinifera) of the Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism (SDLAM) supply projects agreed by the Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council in 2017 to be delivered by Victoria as part of its obligations under the Murray Darling Basin Plan (2012).  

This Schedule will support the delivery of the Restoring Flows to the Mallee Floodplain (RFMF) Program as a new supply measure required to be operational by 31 December 2026.

This Schedule will fund the delive ry of Stage 2 of the Enhanced Environmental Water Delivery (EEWD) Project. The EEWD Project has been approved as part of the SD LAM suite of projects, which are aimed at enabling the long -term average SD Ls under the Basin Plan to be increased by a combined total of 605 gigalitres (GL) / year.

This Schedule will support the construction and commissioning of a new fishway at Burtundy Weir in the Lower Darling River in Western NewSouth Wales (NSW).
 

This schedule will support Victoria to deliver a Detailed Assessment of the Restoring Flows to the Mallee Floodplain Program, a potential new supply measure.
 

This schedule will support NSW to deliver Detailed Assessments of potential new supply measures. Supply measures are part of the Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism (SDLAM) of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan 2012. They are designed to enhance water infrastructure and river operations and enable Basin Plan environmental outcomes to be achieved with less recovery of water for the environment.

This Schedule will support NSW to deliver detailed assessments of potential new supply measures. 

This Schedule will fund the River Murray in South Australia Constraints Measure Stage 2 (the Project). The South Australian (SA) River Murray Measure will manage the impacts of flows proposed under the constraints measure and include improving access roads and tracks and installing and modifying infrastructure.

This schedule will support delivery of the Shorebird and Wetland Habitat Project in South Australia.