Belubula Water Security Project.

Delivering resilient water resources for all water users in the Belubula Valley.

A 20-year Macquarie-Castlereagh region-specific strategy to improve the security and certainty of our water resources.The department’s Water Group is investigating options aligned with the Lachlan Regional Water Strategy and the Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy. These 4 options include: (The department is working with WaterNSW and Central Tablelands Water on this project.)

• a new pipeline between Lake Rowlands Dam and Carcoar Dam to transfer up to 2 gigalitres of water per year, capturing spills and boosting supply
• raising the Lake Rowlands Dam wall to increase storage from 4.5 gigalitres to 8 gigalitres
• building a new dam 2.5 kilometres downstream of Lake Rowlands
• connecting the Belubula and Macquarie valleys through an interregional pipeline.

Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy

A 20-year Macquarie-Castlereagh region-specific strategy to improve the security and certainty of our water resources.The department’s Water Group is investigating options aligned with the Lachlan Regional Water Strategy and the Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy. These 4 options include:

• a new pipeline between Lake Rowlands Dam and Carcoar Dam to transfer up to 2 gigalitres of water per year, capturing spills and boosting supply
• raising the Lake Rowlands Dam wall to increase storage from 4.5 gigalitres to 8 gigalitres
• building a new dam 2.5 kilometres downstream of Lake Rowlands
• connecting the Belubula and Macquarie valleys through an interregional pipeline.

Note: New South Wales Water has lots of information on these projects. Initially they have presented the four options from the Belubula Project as drought proofing the Belubula. But the last option commencing “connecting” in both projects gives this notion away.

It looks like it’s mainly designed to bolster the Macquarie- Castlereagh Project

Eddie Vagg

703 River road

Lake Cargelligo