The full report for the Ovens region from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. (112 pages)
Lagoon on lower Ovens River, Victoria - North East catchment management area.
Ovens region: CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project
The Ovens region is one of a series of 18 regions being assessed as part of the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project.
- 24 January 2008 | Updated 14 October 2011
Background
The Ovens region is in north-eastern Victoria and represents 0.7 per cent of the total area of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB).
The region has a population of around 46 000 people concentrated in the centres of :
- Wangaratta
- Myrtleford
- Beechworth
- Bright.
Research findings
The following documents detail the research findings:
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Fast facts
- The Ovens 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 north-eastern Victoria, represents 0.7 per cent of the total area of the Basin
- It uses 0.2 per cent of the total surface water diverted for irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin, and 0.4 per cent of the total groundwater resource that is extracted in the Basin
