About the area
Goulburn Valley Water provides urban water and wastewater services to around 135,000 people. This encompasses over 62,000 customers in 54 towns, from the outskirts of Melbourne in the south to the Murray River in the north.
Bulk water supply is principally from the Goulburn, Broken, Murray, Steavenson, Rubicon and Delatite rivers, and from some smaller local streams (such as Sunday Creek and Seven Creeks).
More information on the water corporation can be found at Goulburn Valley
2022-23 overview
Urban deliveries
22,299 ML of urban residential and non-residential deliveries were made in 2022-23, similar to the previous year (23,912 ML in 2021-22).
Wastewater recycled at treatment plants
33% of wastewater was recycled (4,256 ML of 13,025 ML), less than 66% in 2021-22.
Water deliveries
Table 1: Urban system water balance, Goulburn Valley Water
Recycled water
Water recycled at wastewater treatment plants can be used to supplement water available in river basins. Table 2 lists the wastewater treatment plants managed by Goulburn Valley Water. Water discharged to the environment from treatment plants is included as an inflow to the water balance for each of the river basins.
More information can be found in How we account for water supply.
