Draft Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy

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Water use in Gippsland You can download submission forms from In addition to supporting many high value www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/programs/sws/gippsland or environmental values, water is used in Gippsland to call 136 186 for a form to be sent to you. Using a supply towns, farms and industry. About 92 per submission form is not compulsory, but may help you cent of water used is sourced from surface water, shape your contribution. with most of the remainder sourced from groundwater. In addition to the supply of water to Written submissions, due by 5pm Friday, 3 December local uses, the Thomson River is an important 2010, can be sent or emailed to: source of supply to the Melbourne water supply system, and the upper parts of the Snowy River in Department of Sustainability and Environment New South Wales supplies some water to the ATTENTION: Murray-Darling Basin via the Snowy Mountains Sustainable Water Strategies Branch Hydro-electric Scheme. Gippsland Region SWS O ce of Water  South Gippsland PO Box 500 Includes the highest proportion of dairy farmers in the Gippsland region, relatively high rainfall East Melbourne VIC 3002 experienced historically and a growing population Email: [email protected] Reduced rainfall over the past 13 years has had a (if emailing please supply address details). significant impact on the urban supplies in the region. You need to know  Catchments of the Gippsland Lakes  The information you provide in you submission, or any other The Latrobe, Thomson, Macalister and Avon river response, will be used by the Department of Sustainability and systems that feed the Gippsland Lakes from the Environment and the Consultative Committee only in the west support irrigation including in the Macalister development of this Sustainable Water Strategy. However, it Irrigation District, urban demands, and large may be disclosed to review panels and other relevant industrial water users such as coal-fired electricity agencies as part of the overall consultation process. generators and paper production. The Mitchell,  All submissions will be treated as public documents and will Nicholson and Tambo rivers further east have a also be published on the internet for public access. much lower level of consumptive use.  All addresses, phone numbers and email details will be removed before submissions are published on the internet. Names will be retained on submissions. Formal requests for  Far East Gippsland confidentiality will be honoured; however Freedom of Includes some of Victoria’s most pristine river Information access requirements will apply to submissions systems, with catchments that are largely forested. treated as confidential. The area has relatively high rainfall and low levels of  If you wish to access information in your submission once it is consumptive water demand. lodged with the Department, you may make a request by contacting the Administrative Support Officer of the Making a submission Sustainable Water Strategies branch at the above address. Individuals, organisations and the community are invited to provide formal feedback to the Draft Further information Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy Information on the Gippsland Region Sustainable through a submissions process. Water Strategy is available from the Department of

FACT SHEET 1 Submissions will be considered, along with Sustainability and Environment’s customer service feedback from forums and other stakeholder centre on 136 186 or the website at contributions, in developing the Final Strategy, www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/programs/sws/gippsland. expected to be released in mid 2011. For more information about local water services and planning, this site also has the contact details for your Information about making a submission can be local water corporation or catchment management found in Chapter 11 of the Draft Strategy. authority.

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