Talking Water - Tuesday 3 September, 2024

This week's contents

Operations

• Spraying, weeds and chemical drums
• Flow Shares, restrictions and Summer irrigation intentions
• High demand and potential restrictions 
• How to lodge an unsatisfied order
• Talking Water data 

Business

• Shareholder discussion groups - Register your interest
• Board meeting update 
• Community in Focus feature

Industry

• National Farmer Rally 
• Water compliance online course 
• Australian Women in Agriculture Conference

Spraying, weeds and chemical drums

Murray Irrigation's routine spraying program along access tracks and around outlets has commenced and will continue over the next couple of months. 

Customers will be notified via SMS the week prior to spraying being undertaken in your area.

If you are experiencing weed issues in supply channels, please contact us on 1300 138 265 and report the problem. 

Please do not spray weeds in channels, as this may cause a contamination issue downstream. For the same reason, we ask customers to please not leave chemical drums on channel banks. 

High demand and potential restrictions

We are experiencing high demand in a number of areas across the footprint. This demand is expected to increase over the next few weeks. 
 
To help minimise chances of interruptions to your orders: 

• Please ensure you place your orders as soon as possible. To guarantee delivery, a four-day order notification is required.
• Consider filling on-farm storages prior to your high demand needs to ensure you can supplement if flows need to be restricted.
• If the water ordering system cannot satisfy your order request, the system will offer you the next available date your order can be satisfied. 
• If you are not happy with the future date the water ordering system offers you, please place an unsatisfied order (see our 'How to' section below). This will place you in the queue for a four-day start, at a restricted flow rate, or earlier if capacity becomes available. 
• Please don’t delay updating your order changes for extensions or increases. 
• Remember that your flow will be determined by the flow shares on your landholding.

If you think you may be impacted by flow restrictions this season and wish to discuss further, please contact our Customer Experience Team on 1300 138 265. Or for more information, check out the fact sheet below. 

Our Customer Engagement Team will be out over the coming months engaging with customers in high demand areas on how they can best manage potential flow restrictions. 

How do I lodge an unsatisfied order?

You will receive the below message when you enter your order. Select Reject to lodge an unsatisfied order.



You will then receive the below message: 

Select Continue. 

This will place your order as a unsatisfied request and put you in the queue to receive your order as soon as capacity is available, or at a restricted flow in four days.

You can find more details in our Water Ordering Guide below. Otherwise feel free to contact us and we can show you how. 



Talking Water data 03/09/2024

To see the latest data for Murray system storages and rivers, visit the Murray Darling Basin Authority's River data page. 

Additional resources 

MDBA weekly report
NSW Water allocation statements
Rainfall and evaporation
Barmah Choke trade balance

The information and data provided in Talking Water is for general reference purposes only. We take best endeavours to ensure accuracy. 

As previously communicated, Murray Irrigation will be hosting a number of shareholder discussion groups from Monday 16 September to Friday 27 September, to understand shareholder sentiment around the Federal Government's intent to undertake further water buybacks in the Murray Irrigation footprint. 

We are asking shareholders to complete the below registration of interest by close of business this Friday 6 September, to assist us in developing a discussion group schedule that reaches as much of the footprint, and as many shareholders as possible.