The full report for the Macquarie-Castlereagh region from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. (158 pages)
Monkeygar Creek and the Macquarie Marshes, NSW.
Macquarie-Castlereagh region: CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
The Macquarie-Castlereagh region is one of a series of 18 regions being assessed as part of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
- 25 March 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011
Background
The Macquarie-Castlereagh region is in central-west New South Wales and represents 6.9 per cent of the total area of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB).
The region has a population of around 180 000 people concentrated in the centres of Dubbo, Wellington, Mudgee, Orange and Bathurst.
Research findings
The following documents detail the research findings:
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Fast facts
- The Macquarie-Castlereagh region is one of a series of 18 regions within the Murray-Darling Basin which is being assessed as part of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
- The region, in central-west New South Wales, represents 6.9 per cent of the total area of the Basin
- It uses slightly less than four per cent of the total surface water diverted for irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin, and 10.9 per cent of the total groundwater resource that is extracted in the Basin
