Northern Victoria resource manager Mark Bailey updated the allocations on Monday, March 3.
Seasonal determinations in the Murray, Goulburn and Loddon systems are unchanged at 100 per cent of high-reliability water shares.
The Bullarook system remains at 12 per cent HRWS.
The Campaspe system seasonal determination is unchanged at 100 per cent HRWS and 48 per cent low-reliability water shares.
In the Broken system, seasonal determinations remain at the maximum available 100 per cent HRWS and 100 per cent LRWS.
Dr Bailey said there was no additional water available to increase seasonal determinations.
“Dry and warm conditions continued in the second half of February,” he said.
“Evaporation and operating losses remain close to our estimates.”
Trading opportunities
Allocation trade from NSW to Victoria is limited to the lesser of a net annual volume of 200 Gl or a volume that keeps the risk of spill in Victoria’s share of both Hume and Dartmouth reservoirs below 50 per cent.
The current risk of spill in the Murray system allows 200 Gl of net trade from NSW to Victoria.
Customers participating in the water trading market can monitor trade availability on the Water Register website at: https://waterregister.vic.gov.au/
Customers can monitor trading opportunities from above the Barmah Choke to downstream of the choke on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority website at: https://www.mdba.gov.au/water-use/water-markets/water-trade/barmah-choke-trade-balance
The next 2024-25 seasonal determination announcement will be on Monday, March 17.
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