James Kellerman Guest Speaker

James Kellerman was guest speaker at meeting on 16th February.

James is Manager of Customer Engagement with Goulburn Murray Water and spoke on transforming rural water deliver by GMW.

GMW's region covers 68,000 km2.

A $2.2b rationalisation and upgrade project is well underway.

Aim is to recover 429gl of loss for the environment, Melbourne and irrigators.

Rationalise to 2,500 - 3,000 km of channel, from 6,000 km.

Prevention of leakage, seepage and evaporation and improve operation and maintenance, and automate the system.

GMW Connection Project aim to provide sustainability for an agriculture future.

Goals include on demand water deliveries, on farm productivity improvement will have a regional benefit with a whole of life cost reduction with lower bills.

Installing new technology, including solar powered channel automation.

Channel lining to prevent leakage and seepage and pipe installation.

Progress in backbone upgrade two thirds completed.