Sentences with word «megalitre»
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps today announced that up to 400 megalitres of water allocations will be available for sale in the Peel Valley.
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«Potential buyers will nominate the volume of water they would be interested in buying and the price per megalitre they would be willing to pay.
The environmental benefit in using the 400 megalitres at this time of year under current conditions is relatively low».
About 440 hectares of Kaladbro have been developed to a combination of centre pivot and flood irrigation, and the property features a 7471 megalitre Ground Water Entitlement.
Webster acquired 220,000 hectares of farmland and 150,000 megalitres of water entitlements from southern Queensland to the NSW Riverina in short period of time in 2015 and has been looking to expand.
The tribunal says the cost of water extraction is about $ 5.50 to $ 6.50 per megalitre - one million litres.
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has completed 44 trades, resulting in the sale of 22,864 megalitres (ML) of Commonwealth environmental water in the southern Murray Darling Basin for a return of $ 6,457,669 for the Murray Darling environment.
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has completed two (2) trades, resulting in the sale of 6,700 megalitres (ML) of Commonwealth environmental water in the Gwydir for a return of $ 2,878,400 for the Murray Darling environment.
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has completed 7 trades, resulting in the sale of 340 megalitres (ML) of Commonwealth environmental water in the Peel for a return of $ 32,580 for the Murray Darling environment.
The Koramba business has water licences totalling 31,105 megalitres and its gin capacity is about 140,000 bales a season.
«One of the impacts is that average price of water the dairy or rice farmer is paying is $ 50 - 100 a megalitre more, in the temporary market, than they would have.»
It was not possible to deliver the 450GL environmental upwater to South Australia, nor achieve flows at the South Australian border of between 60,000 and 80,000 megalitres (ML) a day, without flooding private property.
During April 2016, the Carrs, Cappitts and Bunberoo Creeks system will receive 950 megalitres of environmental water, inundating 60 hectares of wetlands.
An additional 350 megalitres will be delivered to Backwater Lagoon in spring 2016.
Water is a key feature of the farm, which has excellent irrigation infrastructure and is drought proof through access to up to 5000 megalitres of water every year.
As at 28 February 2018, the Commonwealth environmental water holdings total 2,672,408 megalitres of registered entitlements with a Long term average annual yield of 1,836,190 megalitres.
• a R300 million (a third of the total cost) investment in the road upgrade along William Nicol Drive, with plans to extend it through to the N14; • cycle and pedestrian lanes from Mulbarton Street to the Erling Street interchange; • a R73.9 million sewerage upgrade; and • a new R35 million 30 megalitres water reservoir.