Consultancy Services for the Queensland Murray Darling Basin Environmental Works and Measures Feasibility Program

The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) is inviting offers for the supply of consultancy services for the Queensland Murray Darling Basin (QMDB) Environmental Works and Measures Feasibility Project.

The objectives of the QMDB environmental works and measures feasibility project are as follows:

1. develop a prospectus of potential environmental works and measures with priority opportunities identified that would propose on ground works or other measures that:

• Overcome constraints to achieving environmental outcomes at assets of high conservation value and/or
• reduce the impact of the transition to new Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDLs) that will be set under the Basin Plan

2. develop an implementation program that will identify an appropriate mechanism, constraints and possible works (e.g. decommissioning) to allow for the water recovery of existing overland flow water licences in the Lower Balonne area.

The project is designed to lessen the burden of mandatory Sustainable Diversion Limits in priority locations where diversion limit reductions are proposed under the Basin Plan. Accordingly the focus areas for the consultancy are:

• Condamine and Balonne Rivers catchment;
• Border Rivers catchment; and
• Moonie River catchment.