NSW's Lachlan River irrigators receive water allocations

Monday, 30/07/2007

Water users along one of the Murray-Darling Basin's rivers will now have some water allocated, following inflows into the Lachlan Valley's Wyangala Dam.

The towns along the Lachlan will now receive 70 per cent of their allocations, 50 per cent for stock and domestic and 30 per cent of high security allocations, while 10 per cent of carryover water will now be made available.

Lachlan Valley Water chairman Dennis Moxey says there will now be enough water to protect permanent plantings and industries that rely on river water.

"We tried to free up a little bit of that water so as it could move around and just look after those high-valued crops and permanent plantings as well as industries along the river valley itself so they could just maintain themselves rather than have to close down," he said.