Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project (NVIRP)
NVIRP was established to upgrade the irrigation channels and associated infrastructure in northern Victoria's Goulburn Murray Irrigation District. The GMID covers approximately 68,000 square kilometres and comprises Australia's largest irrigation network which initially extended over 6,300 kilometres.

Works included modernising metering technologies and channel regulating structures, lining leaking channels and removing redundant assets to deliver enhanced irrigation services to the region's irrigators, with shorter water ordering times and greater water supply and flow reliability.

NVIRP remains Australia's largest ever irrigation modernisation program.

Coleambally Modernisation

Coleambally Irrigation Co-operative Limited (CICL) is Australia’s third largest private irrigation company and delivers irrigation water across an area of approximately 400,000 hectares of which approximately 79,000 hectares is intensively irrigated. The Co-operative's irrigation delivery system relies solely on gravity across 518 kilometres of supply channels and 734 kilometres of drainage. The modernisation program involved the installation of leading edge technology i.e. a Total Channel Control (TCC) system which is solar powered and fully computerised. It also uses broadband communications. TCC allows for water orders to be satisfied within 2 hours, precise regulation of flows, precise measurement and the automation of water ordering and water accounting. The modernization program effectively delivered the new world benchmark for water distribution efficiency at over 90% and resulted in significant water savings being shared between customers and Government.

Computer Aided River Management Review

A two-phase assessment of water savings from the application of the integrated Computer Aided River Management (CARM) model was undertaken. Phase 1 assessed the application of CARM to the the Murrumbidgee catchment and an provided an estimate to validate water savings. Phase 2 assessed the opportunity to roll CARM out in other NSW catchments, with consideration of potential benefits and challenges under a number of criteria. This project required comprehensive understanding of hydrologic, hydraulic and geohydrological interactions within each catchment, review of estimated water savings and close contact with key stakeholders. 

North and Northwest Queensland Sustainable Resource Feasibility Study

The agribusiness elements of the studies investigated an irrigated agriculture precinct in the Pentland/Hughenden region, to sustain new cropping opportunities.  Specific emphasis was placed on sugar production and associated processing facilities to support economic development and growth in the long term.
 The agriculture study assessed the potential for the development of up to 125,000 hectares of irrigated sugarcane, including associated water infrastructure (dam and channel network), sugar mill, ethanol production facility, cogeneration facility and rail spur line.