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  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2024-25 PDF 6.62MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2023-24 PDF 9.32MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2022-23 PDF 6.36MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2021-22 PDF 14MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2020-21 PDF 15MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2019-20 PDF 4.51MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2018-19 PDF 9.58MB
  • Victorian CMAs Actions and Achievements Report 2017-18 PDF 8.87MB
  • Victorian CMA’s Actions and Achievements Report 2016-17 PDF 7.42MB
  • Victorian CMA’s Actions and Achievements Report 2015-16 PDF 10.27MB
  • Victorian CMA’s Actions and Achievements Report 2014-15 PDF 5.03MB
  • Victorian CMA’s Actions and Achievements Report 2013-14 PDF 4.32MB

Games

  • Waterwatch Resource Game Board creeks and Pipes PDF 1.04MB

Learning about our Catchment and Water Quality

GTAV Resources

For more details see our Education page

If you would like to find more resources or information see https://www.gtav.asn.au/resources/secondary-resources-7-10

– Water in the World – Wimmera region case study – Year 7 Geography

See the GTAV website if you would like to find more resources or information on this Water in the World

– Place and Liveability – Wimmera region case study – Year 7 Geography

See the GTAV website if you would like to find more resources or information on this Place and Liveability

– First Nations Water in the World – Wimmera Region Case Study – Year 7 Geography

  • Teacher Plan: The Geography of Water – First Nations Focus PDF 1.23MB
  • Lesson 1 The First Nations People of the Wimmera Region PDF 423KB
  • Lesson 2 Indigenous Use and Management of Water Resources PDF 373KB
  • Lesson 3 Ranch Billabong, A Case Study PDF 877KB

If you would like to find more resources or information see the GTAV website lesson First Nations Water in the World

  • Wimmera Floodplain Management Strategy PDF 5.34MB
  • Wimmera Floodplain Management Strategy-Midterm Implementation Report PDF 4.93MB
  • Wimmera Flood Warning Service Charter PDF 1.14MB
  • Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas PDF 2.36MB
  • Wimmera CMA Fencing Guidelines PDF 1.0MB
  • Wimmera CMA Cut and Fill Guidelines PDF 1.1MB
  • Wimmera CMA Form Works On Waterways WOW Permit Application DOCX 515KB

Current Reports

Wimmera Floodplain Management Strategy PDF 5.34MB
Wimmera Floodplain Management Strategy-Midterm Implementation Report PDF 4.93MB

  • Flood Investigation – Concongella Creek Regional Flood Mapping stage 1 draft PDF 2.30MB
  • Flood Investigation – Horsham Wartook – Final Report PDF 40.02MB
  • Flood Investigation – Horsham Wartook – Design Modelling Report PDF 10.66MB
  • Flood Investigation – Horsham Wartook – Calibration Report PDF 14.86MB
  • Flood Investigation – Horsham Wartook – Data Collation Review PDF 5.06MB
  • Flood Investigation – Horsham Wartook – Data Verification PDF 4.48MB
  • Flood Investigation – Lower Wimmera
  • Flood Investigation – Lower Wimmera – Hydrology PDF 3.85MB
  • Flood Investigation – Lower Wimmera – Hydraulics PDF 12.58MB
  • Flood Investigation – Lower Wimmera – Flood Intelligence PDF 4.74MB
  • Flood Investigation – Lower Wimmera – Site Visit and Data Collation PDF 11.90MB
  • Flood Investigation – Mt William Creek PDF 46.20MB
  • Flood Investigation – Mt William Creek – Executive Summary PDF 2.62MB
  • Flood Investigation – Mt William Creek – Appendicies PDF 156.55MB
  • Flood Investigation – Natimuk PDF 3.57MB
  • Flood Investigation – Natimuk Report Appendicies PDF 1.49MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell PDF 15.6MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell – Data Review and Validation Report PDF 3.9MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell – Model Development and Calibration Report PDF 11.3MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell – Design Modelling Report PDF 11.9MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell – Flood Intelligence and Warning Report PDF 11.4MB
  • Flood Investigation – Stawell – Flood Damage and Mitigation Report PDF 13.2MB
  • Flood Investigation – Upper Wimmera PDF 42.47MB
  • Flood Investigation – Upper Wimmera – Executive Summary PDF 2.62MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Beulah PDF 2.84MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim PDF 19.19MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Flood Intelligence Report PDF 6.41MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Flood Mitigation Options PDF 11.75MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Flood Warning Assessment PDF 4.93MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Hydrology & Hydraulics PDF 3.58MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Levee Design Report PDF 3.19MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – No Levee 100 year Flood Extent JPG 2.12MB
  • Flood Investigation – Warracknabeal and Brim – Proposed Levee Height Map JPG 19.23MB
  • Flood Investigation – Wimmera River & Yarriambiack Creek Flow Modelling* PDF 3.68MB

* The Wimmera River and Yarriambiack Creek Flow Modelling investigation undertook hydrologic and hydraulic modelling of the waterways between Glenorchy, Horsham, and Warracknabeal. The study assessed both current and ‘pre-European’ catchment-waterway-floodplain regimes.

Previous Reports

Flood and Flow Extent Maps

Flood Map Locations1-in-5
year event
1-in-10
year event
1-in-20
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1-in-50
year event
1-in-100
year event
1-in-200
year event
AEP Flood and Flow Events
Beulah 200610%5%2%1%0.5%
Concongella 201520%10% 5%2%  1%0.5% 
Dunmunkle 2017 – Rupanyup town post mitigation1%
Dunmunkle 2017 – Boolite, Murtoa, Glenorchy & Upper Dunmunkle Creek20%10%5%2%1%0.5%
Halls Gap 201720%10%5%2%1%0.5%
Horsham-Wartook 201920%10%5%2% 1%0.5%
Lower Wimmera 2016 – downstream
of Horsham 
20%10%5%2%1% 0.5%
Mount William Creek 201420%10% 5%2%1% 0.5%
Natimuk 201320%10%5% 2%1%0.5%
Stawell 20241%
Upper Wimmera 201420%10%5% 2%1%0.5%
Wimmera River & Yarriambiack Creek
2009 (inc. Horsham)
20%10%5%2%1%0.5%
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 – Brim20%10%5%2%1%0.5%
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 –
Warracknabeal
20%10%5%2%1%0.5%
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 – Jung20%10%5%2%1%0.5%

PLEASE NOTE: Maps are provided for general community information purposes only.
Flood levels and floor levels are determined from information available at a particular time and actual levels may exceed those shown. For information about flood conditions and restrictions affecting a particular property, contact Wimmera CMA or the relevant council. Neither Wimmera CMA nor the State of Victoria claim or warrant that the information in this map is accurate, complete or up to date, and neither Wimmera CMA nor the State shall be responsible or liable in respect of any use of or reliance placed on it by any person.

Flood and Flow Extent Maps – High Resolution

Please note these files contain higher quality details and are therefore large files.

AEP (Annual Exceedance Probability) Flood and Flow Event Extent Maps

Flood Map Locations1-in-5
year event
1-in-10
year event
1-in-20
year event
1-in-50
year event
1-in-100
year event
1-in-200
year event
 1-in-500
year event
AEP Flood and Flow Events
Beulah 200610%5%2%1%0.5% 
Concongella 201520%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Dunmunkle 2017 – Rupanyup town post mitigation1%
Dunmunkle 2017 – Boolite, Murtoa, Glenorchy & Upper Dunmunkle Creek20%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Halls Gap 201720%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Lower Wimmera 2016 – downstream of Horsham20%10%5%2%1%0.5%0.2%
Mount William Ck 201420%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Natimuk 201320%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Upper Wimmera 201420%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Wimmera River & Yarriambiack Creek 2009
(inc. Horsham)
20%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 – Brim20%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 – Warracknabeal20%10%5%2%1%0.5% 
Yarriambiack Creek 2016 – Jung20%10%5%2%1%0.5% 

PLEASE NOTE: Maps are provided for general community information purposes only.
Flood levels and floor levels are determined from information available at a particular time and actual levels may exceed those shown. For information about flood conditions and restrictions affecting a particular property, contact Wimmera CMA or the relevant council. Neither Wimmera CMA nor the State of Victoria claim or warrant that the information in this map is accurate, complete or up to date, and neither Wimmera CMA nor the State shall be responsible or liable in respect of any use of or reliance placed on it by any person.

  • Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan – Wimmera
  • Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan Wimmera DOCX 732KB PDF 2MB
  • Appendix 1-Maps for Emergency Preparedness Response and Recovery Plan PDF 6.66MB DOCX 17MB
  • Appendix 2-Multi-jurisdictional inventory of assets PDF 386KB DOCX 152KB
  • Appendix 3-DEECA Bushfire Risk Assessment Metadata Statement Wimmera CMA PDF 463KB DOCX 639KB
  • Natural Resource Management Plan for Climate Change Modelling – Agricultural Land Protection WCMA PDF 606KB
  • Natural Resource Management Plan for Climate Change Modelling – Waterways PDF 684KB
  • NRMPCC Modelling – Priortisiation PDF 710KB
  • Social Drivers of NRM in the Wimmera 2017 PDF 2.64MB
  • Social Drivers of NRM in the Wimmera 2012 PDF 1.63MB
  • Social Drivers of NRM in the Wimmera 2008 PDF 1.42MB
  • Social Drivers of NRM in the Wimmera 2002 PDF 1.36MB
  • WDA Recreational Water Economic Contribution 2022 Selected Events PDF 3.05MB
  • Wimmera Carbon Ready Plan PDF 3.69MB
  • Wimmera Carbon Ready Plan (HR) PDF 52.79MB
  • Wimmera Social Benchmarking Report Summary 2023 PDF 230KB
  • Wimmera Social Benchmarking Report 2023 PDF 3.00MB
  • Tapping into the soil moisture probe portal – case study PDF 4.0MB
  • Data Driven Drought Resilience project Soil Probe Network Fact Sheet PDF 4.44MB
  • Data Driven Drought Resilience project Weather Station & Soil Moisture Probe Network PDF 1.33MB

Seasonal Watering Plans/Proposals

Environmental Water

  • Environmental Watering Management Plan for Wimmera River, Yarriambiack Creek and the Terminal Lakes PDF 9.2MB
  • Environmental Watering Management Plan for the MacKenzie River and Burnt and Bungalally Creeks 7MB
  • Environmental Watering Management Plan for Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Wetlands PDF 16.3MB
  • VEWH What is environmental water? PDF 4MB
  • VEWH Why is environmental watering important? PDF 5MB
  • VEWH What does environmental watering aim to achieve? PDF 2MB
  • VEWH What does environmental watering involve? PDF 2MB
  • VEWH How do we know if environmental watering is successful? PDF 4MB
  • VEWH What is environmental water trading? PDF 968KB

Waterway Assessments and Condition Reports

  • Connecting the Catchments PDF 1.02MB
  • Lake Natimuk Weir Ecological Assessment PDF 6.99MB
  • Wimmera Wetland Hydrology Investigation PDF 14.51MB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report PDF 6.07MB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report-Section One PDF 381KB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report-Section Two PDF 2.04MB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report-Section Three PDF 2.26MB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report-Section Four PDF 993KB
  • Wimmera Geomorphic Categorisation and Stream Condition Report – Appendices PDF 862KB
  • Wimmera River Geomorphic Investigation – Sediment Sources, Transport and Fate – Dec 2004 PDF 24.16MB
  • Managing vegetation and large wood in and around waterways – Overview-and-approvals PDF 219KB
  • Managing vegetation and large wood in and around waterways – Instream vegetation and flooding PDF 251KB
  • Managing vegetation and large wood in and around waterways – Large wood (snags) and flooding PDF 343KB
  • Managing vegetation and large wood in and around waterways – Riparian (streamside) vegetation and flooding PDF 270KB

Waterway Action Plans

  • Waterway Action Plan – Burnt Creek PDF 2.83MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Concongella Creek PDF 1.71MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Glendhu Creek PDF 820KB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Glenlofty Creek PDF 2.11MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Glenpatrick and Nowhere PDF 912KB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Green Lake PDF 12.1MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – MacKenzie River PDF 23.51MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Millers Creek PDF 4.64MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Mt Cole Waterway PDF 1.01MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Seven Mile Creek PDF 972KB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Shays Creek PDF 2.63MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Six Mile Creek PDF 2.63MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Spring Tuckers Creek PDF 840KB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Wattle Creek PDF 1.37MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Wimmera Heritage River PDF 9.82MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Wimmera River Reach 2 PDF 1.77MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Wimmera River Reaches 3, 4, 5, 6.1 PDF 1.01MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Wimmera River Reach 6.2 PDF 1.69MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Yarriambiack Creek PDF 5.09MB
  • Waterway Action Plan – Dunmunkle Creek PDF 35.68MB

Waterway Strategies

  • Wimmera Regional Catchment Strategy (RCS) 2021-27 PDF 8.16MB
  • Wimmera RCS 2021-27 Appendix 1 PDF 199KB
  • Wimmera RCS 2021-27 Appendix 2 PDF 285KB
  • Wimmera RCS 2021-27 Appendix 3 PDF 43KB
  • Wimmera RCS 2021-27 Appendix 4 PDF 123KB
  • Wimmera RCS 2021-27-Addendum-Wimmera Regional Land Partnerships Program Action Plan PDF 6.18MB
  • Wimmera Regional Delivery Plan 2013-2018 PDF 3.53MB

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