Talking Water - Tuesday 28 March, 2023

Preparing for 2023 Winter Operations

In coming weeks, we start the transition from Regular Operation to Winter Operations.

The aim of the Winter Operation period is to:

reduce the impact of the maintenance strategy on customers, and
assist in delivering the winter works program on time and on budget.
For customers this will mean:
a change to 4 days’ notice for orders,
drawdown in areas where there are no
irrigation intentions or future orders and access for winter works is required.
Customers can assist us by:
placing orders as early as possible,
letting us know if you plan to irrigate in
May or June, and
filling your stock & domestic dams.

More details in the Season Operating Plan.

Alert: Daylight-saving ends Sunday

If you are placing an order to finish after daylight savings ends, this Sunday 2 April, the water ordering system will automatically reduce the order by an hour to enable lodgement.

We will manually adjust all orders to the correct finish time for the operating area.

Needing to drain Rice water – Apply here

Reminder that you need to apply to discharge rice drainage water into the Murray Irrigation drainage network.

2023 Winter Maintenance zones

Areas in light pink in the map below will be drained as part of our Maintenance Strategy. You can view what the maintenance year for each of your outlets on the “My Outlets”

page of the Customer Portal.