How will The Living Murray water portfolio be used to water the icon sites?
Delivery of water available under The Living Murray water portfolio will be guided by The Living Murray Environmental Watering Plan and, possibly in the future, as part of the Basin Environmental Watering Plan. The general aim is to replicate natural watering cycles at the sites. This is likely to mean that large-scale watering events are delivered to sites at approximately 3- to 5-year intervals and sites would receive low to moderate amounts in the intervening years. It is most likely that the volumes of water available in any year would be largely used on only 1–2 sites, with different sites watered in the subsequent couple of years. This approach and the establishment of works to efficiently deliver water will mean that very large-scale watering of sites will be possible, creating far greater ecological benefits than was first anticipated with 500 GL. The linked graph shows possible watering of sites, drawing on The Living Murray portfolio, based on modelled flows in the Murray ove
