SUNRAYSIA irrigators vaulted past last season’s record low water allocation of 35 per cent yesterday when Goulburn-Murray Water announced a further eight per cent boost to their high-security water entitlements.
G-MW resource manager Graeme Hannan said the 8pc allocation was due to continuing good inflows into the Murray and Goulburn catchments.
Goulburn system irrigators received a 3pc allocation, taking them to 33pc, but low inflows into the Broken, Campaspe, Loddon and Bullarook systems again saw irrigators in come up dry.
They have had no allocation since the 2006-07 season.
The NSW Office of Water announced yesterday that general-security allocations for Murray irrigators would inrease by 4pc, to 5pc of entitlement, after good rainfall across the Murray and Snowy Mountains catchments. Murrumbidgee general-security irrigators – most of them rice growers – are also on a five per cent allocation, after a one per cent increase yesterday.
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