Latest watering releases
Based on best available operational data, the following environmental water deliveries were made in the month of October 2021.
Central region
Moorabool system
- Moorabool River
Gippsland region
Latrobe system
- Lower Latrobe wetlands: Heart Morass, Sale Common, Dowd Morass
Snowy system
- Snowy River
Western region
Wimmera system
- MacKenzie River
Wimmera Mallee wetlands
- Morton Plains Reserve, Broom Tank, Clinton Shire Dam, Cronomby Tanks, D Smith Dam, John Ampt, Roselyn wetlands, Uttiwillock wetland, Towma, Carapugna, Mutton Swamp, Sawpit Swamp
Northern region
Victorian Murray system
- Hattah Lakes
- Central Murray wetlands: Lake Elizabeth, Lake Murphy, Round Lake, Wirra-lo wetlands
- Lower Murray wetlands: Robertson Creek
- Lindsay Mulcra and Wallpolla islands: Mullaroo Creek, Potterwalkagee Creek, Lindsay River, Mulcra Floodplain, Lake Wallawalla, Crankhandle
- Gunbower Creek
- Gunbower Forest: Little Reedy wetland complex, Reedy Lagoon
Goulburn system
- Goulburn River
- Goulburn wetlands: Loch Garry and Kanyapella Basin
Broken system
- Lower Broken Creek
- Broken wetlands: Moodie swamp
Campaspe system
- Campaspe River
Loddon system
- Loddon River
- Serpentine Creek
- Pyramid Creek
- Boort wetlands: Lake Meran
Releases can include water delivered in Victoria by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (The Living Murray program).
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
- • Barmah Forest
- • Gunbower Creek and Forest
- • Central Murray wetlands
- • Hattah Lakes
- • Lower Murray wetlands
- • Lindsay, Wallpolla and Mulcra
- • Ovens system
- • Goulburn River
- • Goulburn wetlands
- • Broken River and Upper Broken Creek
- • Lower Broken Creek
- • Broken wetlands
- • Campaspe River
- • Coliban River
- • Loddon River system (including Tullaroop, Serpentine and Pyramid creeks)
- • Boort wetlands
- • Birch Creek
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