Water Allocations for Sale or Lease

Water Allocations for Sale or Lease

Sale of medium priority permanent water allocations — Mareeba-Dimbulah Water Supply Scheme

Following completion of the Mareeba-Dimbulah Water Supply Scheme (MDWSS) Efficiency Improvement Project, Sunwater has validated water savings from the scheme’s Barron Zone D for permanent sale.

The Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water (DRDMW) Approval has approved the conversion of 11,508 megalitres (ML) of medium priority (MP) distribution losses from the validated savings to productive use water allocations with the purpose “Any”.

The repurposed 11,508 ML will have no impact on existing allocations in the MDWSS with the total entitlement in the scheme remaining unchanged.

Sunwater will make the 11,508 ML of MDWSS Barron Zone D MP allocations available for permanent trade through an auction on the Water Exchange platform over a three-week period from Monday 29 April to Wednesday 15 May 2024. Sunwater is providing this advance notice for interested buyers to prepare for the auction.

The water will be auctioned as per the details outlined in the table below.

Further information

For further information regarding the water sale process or to progress registration of a Water Exchange trading account, please contact Sunwater’s Ruralco water broker, Lincoln Parr, on 0419 473 153 or lparr@ruralcowater.com.au

More information

Sunwater Customer Support
Phone: 13 15 89
Email: customersupport@sunwater.com.au