Media Releases

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority Vegetation Officers are spreading the word on how landholders can tap into grants to improve river health and improve their properties at the same time.

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority Waterways Officers are spreading the word on how landholders can tap into grants to improve river health and improve their properties at the same time.

The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority has launched a waterway grants scheme targeting Landholders who live along the Broken River.

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, the region’s caretaker of river health, is urging people to consider throwing back Murray Cod that are over the legal catch size and could be retained.

The Goulburn Broken Soil Health Strategy Summary was launched today during a workshop on the future of soil health in the region.

Nature buffs can brush up on their knowledge of the region’s varying vegetation thanks to information sheets developed by the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority.

Four wetland sites have flooded this year along the Murray River upstream of the Barmah Forest - a return to natural flooding regimes is expected with a myriad of benefits set to follow.

Golden Perch, Murray Cod and many small native fish species are spawning in the Barmah wetlands as a result of environmental water allocations released onto the iconic site.

The $2.7million Stage Three of the Muckatah Surface Water Management System was launched today. It is part of a drainage system that will serve the entire Muckatah Catchment taking in about 60,000 ha north east of Numurkah.

In conjunction with funding from the Australian Government’s Water Savings Project (a component of the Natural Heritage Trust) and the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, local landholders are working to speed-up the adoption of Best Practice in the Shepparton Irrigation Region.