We have been receiving a number of inquiries around the Trust’s annual pumping shutdown.

As communicated earlier in the year, due to COVID-19 and given there were significant works completed during last year’s shutdown, we did not conduct our usual annual shutdown in May and may not have an annual shutdown this year.

HOWEVER, a shutdown may occur in late July/August for some potential required works at the main pump station. Please rest assured that we will be giving plenty of advance notice about this.

Hopefully that answers any queries and please do share this information with connections of yours that may be interested/effected.

A Horticultural Netting Infrastructure Grants information session will be held at the Renmark Club TOMORROW, Wednesday 1 July from 4:30pm. Tony Pasin MP will also be attending the Club. Please RSVP to Tim Grieger (Summerfruit SA) at 0409 099 122.

Recently, the Horticultural Netting Infrastructure Grants were announced in an effort to help primary producers in the Riverland and Adelaide Hills/Greater Adelaide region fund the purchase and installation of new netting or the replacement of any damaged netting over land used to grow horticulture crops. Please click here for more information from PIRSA.

This short ‘River Murray Water Resources – Opening Allocations’ video explains the latest weather outlook and the latest water allocation updates and projections as of 15 June 2020.

On 15 June 2020, the Department for Environment and Water (DEW) has announced that the opening allocation for the 2020-21 water year will be 40 percent.

The updated projections indicate that even if an extreme dry scenario plays out over the next six months, South Australian Class 3 (High Security) allocations are projected to reach 100 per cent by November 2020. In other words, allocations are projected to reach 100 per cent if inflow conditions in 2020-21 correspond to or are better than the worst five per cent of years in the recent historical record.

The full announcement and South Australia’s Water Allocation statement can be found here.

Please help us by observing social distancing measures, including 1.5m spacing and observing the ‘crosses’ on the office floor for guidance, as well as paying by contactless payment (card where possible) and using the hand sanitiser.

Welcome back!

The Trust Office is now open to customers via our COVID-19 conscious window service… This means you can attend the Trust Office and speak to our friendly staff in person with any enquiries/to tend to account matters.

We look forward to (hopefully) opening our doors in the near future.

Thank you all for your patience to date.

Water supply servicing properties on Kulkyne, Ontario, and some intersecting streets to resume this afternoon.

Thank you for your understanding.

Due to an incident on Friday, water supply servicing properties on both Kulkyne, Ontario, and some intersecting streets is currently shut down.

There are some complexities to the fix required, requiring a bespoke part to be engineered, and the Trust team is working on solutions ASAP.

At this stage, it is anticipated that water supply will resume at some stage on Wednesday evening. An update will be provided if this timeline changes as well as when water supply resumes.

Thank you for your understanding.

On 15 May 2020, the Department for Environment and Water (DEW) has announced that the minimum projected Class 3 (High Security) and Class 8 opening allocation for the 2020-21 water year has been increased to 8 percent.

Despite this very low minimum opening allocation, improvements across the water year are also expected. How quickly and by how much allocations improve depends on future rainfall, where and when it occurs and how much runoff then makes its way into Southern Basin storages. Most inflows to the River Murray System historically occur between July and October, so the main inflow season is yet to arrive.

The full announcement and South Australia’s Water Allocation statement can be found on the DEW website here.