2020-21 Seasonal Watering Proposal: Mildura Region

2020-21 Seasonal Watering Proposal: Mildura Region Image: Australasian Shovelers at Lake Hawthorn, Pauline Follett Proposals are currently being Seasonal Watering Plan. This plan region: Brickworks Billabong at developed to consider delivery shows the potential environmental Merbein Common and Koorlong of environmental water to priority watering that could occur during the Lakes. It is a high priority to ensure sites in the Mildura region during year in each system, using water Brickworks and Koorlong receive 2020-21. The forecast for 2020-21 available under all environmental is for continuing dry conditions; with water entitlements held in Victoria. water for the environment to protect this in mind it is important we sustain This includes water available under the near extinct Murray hardyhead. small critical refuge areas for our the VEWH’s environmental water native waterbirds and endangered entitlement and water held by Native Waterbirds fish. other water environmental water holders such as the Commonwealth We are fortunate to live in a region The Mallee Catchment Management Environmental Water Holder and that supports a large number of Authority (CMA) has met with the Murray Darling Basin Authority. native waterbirds. Lake Hawthorn, Traditional Owners and community Brickworks Billabong, Cowanna members to discuss where water Endangered fish - Billabong, Koorlong Lakes and can be delivered in 2020-21 and what this will achieve. Feedback Murray Hardyhead Ducksfoot Lagoon are all very from these community meetings and Murray Hardyhead was once important wetlands for providing scientific studies from Mildura sites widespread in wetlands around crucial food sources for waterbirds. Mildura. However survey work will be used to develop a Seasonal Citizen scientist who survey these Watering Proposal (SWP). has highlighted that the species is on the verge of extinction. sites have counted over 11,000 This proposal will be submitted to Presently the fish resides in only birds and 95 different species of the Victorian Environmental Water three wetlands within Victoria, two birds visiting these wetlands over Holder (VEWH), an independent of these are within the Mildura the last two years. These wetlands statutory body responsible for are growing food that doesn't managing Victoria’s environmental grow in the river and is vital for water entitlements. bird survival. It is a high priority Seasonal Water Plan to ensure these wetlands receive Every June, the VEWH uses the water for the environment to grow SWPs submitted from across plankton and invertebrates; vital Victoria to form a state-wide Photo credit: Gunther Schmida food for waterbirds. Mildura Proposal Proposed delivery of water Due to the ongoing dry conditions Name of Site it is important to provide drought for 2020-21 refuges for native waterbirds and endangered fish. Brickworks Lagoon ü The table on the right outlines the sites around Mildura that are Lake Hawthorn ü proposed to receive environmental water over the 2020-21 season. Koorlong Lake ü Your say? *Cowanna Billabong ü You can contact us via phone: 5051 4377 or email: *Butlers Creek and Ducksfoot Lagoon ü [email protected] with your feedback. No water Proposed water delivery *The Seasonal Water Proposal outlines actions that may be undertaken to achieve a site’s environmental objective, but do not use a water allocation. The sites with an asterisk are within the influence of a weir pool, a regulator is opened in Spring to deliver water to these sites. Mildura Region Wentworth Rd Yelta oanna illabon Silver City Hwy Arumpo Rd ricors illabon Cowanna Ave Third St Merbein West Merbein Reilly St Hendy Rd Flora Ave Adelaide St Ranfurly Way Sturt Hwy Eleventh St Seventh St Main Ave South Sturt Hwy Mena Rd Birdwoodton ae Mildura Cabarita athorn Nichols Point Seventeenth St Merbein South Deakin Ave Benetook Ave Fifteenth St utlers ree rymple Sturt Hwy ucsoot aoon Lake Benetook Ginquam AveCalder Hwy oorlon ae Koorlong Sunnycliffs Published April 2020 Publications produced by the Mallee Catchment Management Authority may be of assistance to you but the Mallee Catchment Management Authority and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purpose and therefore disclaims all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in any Mallee Catchment Management Authority publication..

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