Latest watering releases
The following environmental water releases are currently being delivered or have recently been delivered.
Latrobe
- Delivering to Dowd Morass
Snowy
- Delivering variable flows to the Snowy River
Lower Barwon wetlands
- Delivering to Reedy Lake
Murray
- Gradually increasing deliveries to Gunbower Creek to target high flows
- Delivering to target connectivity flows between Gunbower Creek and River Murray
- Delivering to Round Lake in the central Murray wetlands
- Delivering to Hattah Lakes
Based on operational data available 20/9/2016.
Baseflow/low flow = a relatively stable, sustained minimum flow. Fresh = small or short watering events which exceed baseflow.
Releases can include water delivered in Victoria by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Murray-Darling Basin Authority (The Living Murray program) and the NSW Government.
Environmental watering objectives may also be met by other water in the system (such as water for households, industry and farming).
How do we know it works?
To measure the success of environmental watering, it is important to draw on the large body of scientific and community knowledge that exists about Victoria’s rivers and wetlands.
Learn MoreSeasonal watering plan
A statewide plan that scopes potential environmental watering in rivers and wetlands.
Learn MoreRivers and wetlands
Northern region
- • Barmah Forest
- • Gunbower Creek and Forest
- • Central Murray wetlands
- • Hattah Lakes
- • Lower Murray wetlands
- • Lindsay, Wallpolla and Mulcra
- • Ovens system
- • Goulburn River
- • Goulburn wetlands
- • Upper Broken Creek
- • Lower Broken Creek
- • Broken wetlands
- • Campaspe River
- • Coliban River
- • Loddon River
- • Boort wetlands
- • Birchs Creek
Environmental water stories
Donating water
Imagine camping beside a wetland knowing that it’s got as much water as it has because of you? Avid bushwalker and landholder Christiane Jaeger can do just that.
Protecting platypus
The platypus is a uniquely Australian species. Along with echidnas, platypus are part of an exceptional group of mammals which lay eggs, known as monotremes. Yet our ‘duck-billed’, egg-laying icon requires protection.
News and media releases
Water flows into Hattah Lakes
Environmental watering is underway at Hattah Lakes, taking advantage of high flows in the River Murray. For the past three weeks, river flows in the River Murray have been high enough to naturally enter Chalka Creek, giving native aquatic plants and animals the opportunity to move between the river and the lakes.
Threatened fish baby boom
Melbourne Water is expecting a baby boom of threatened Australian Grayling having successfully mimicked ideal breeding conditions for the species through the release of environmental water in the Tarago River.
Science and nature combine to cancel flow
Science and Mother Nature have combined forces ensuring there is no need for August's scheduled environmental water release down the Campaspe River. Rainfall in late July and early August fell at the same time the 50ML-a-day winter low flow was heading down the river.