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This water resource plan is the prevailing management plan for the surface water resources in the Victorian Murray water resource plan area.

Andrew Reynolds, Acting Chief Executive, provides an overview on how the Murray–Darling Basin Authority is managing Hume Dam during the current high flows.

The following can be attributed to Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) acting Chief Executive Andrew Reynolds.

Hume Dam forms Hume Reservoir, which is the main supply storage and one of the two major headwater storages for the River Murray system.

Murray–Darling Basin communities are anticipating a wet spring but are warned there is a significant risk of hypoxic blackwater events occurring particularly in New South Wales.

The Yarrawonga Weir is located on the River Murray between the towns of Yarrawonga, Victoria, and Mulwala in New South Wales.

In 2007–2008 CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields (MDBSY) project published a series of reports documenting water availability across the Murray-Darling Basin, including an assessment of the likely impacts of climate change to ~2030 on water availability (e.g. CSIRO 2008a).

This report summarises the key lessons learnt from the Millennium drought for operation of the River Murray System and the changes made since then to improve water resource management in extreme dry conditions.

Works underway to repair erosion and damage at sites along 114 kilometres of the Swampy Plains and upper Murray rivers were the focus of a recent meeting of local landholders in Corryong, hosted by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE).

This report summarises some of the results of the bank erosion monitoring program on the River Murray between 2009 and 2016. It focuses on areas that are being impacted by high boating activity, in particular the reach south of Corowa to the Ovens Junction.