1. National telemetry Workshop 1.MDBC Structure 2.River Murray Water Data requirements 3.Operational Data Management System

2. SIX GOVERNMENTS Aust Govt NSW Vic SA Qld ACT MURRAY-DARLING BASIN MINISTERIAL COUNCIL Up to 3 Ministers from each Government representing land, water and environment Community Advisory Committee 21 Regional & special interest representatives Commission Office Technical and administrative secretariat MURRAY-DARLING BASIN COMMISSION 1 Independent President 2 Commissioners from each Government

5. Operations Services Not primary data collectors Pay state Hydrographic groups to manage MDBC stations and data Fund investment programs for the networks e.g. new stations, station upgrades Service internal MDBC data needs, external data requests

6. River Murray Water Core Activities 1.Daily Operations 2.Resource Assessment 3.Flood Operations

7. Data - Daily River Operations 1.Daily river heights (flows) and storage elevation (volumes) 2.Rainfall and Pan evaporation (Major storages) 3.Major diversions (Canals, Large pumps) 4.Salinity 5.Forecast Orders Tributary flows Losses

8. Resource Assessment 1.Water available (Storages, In-stream) 2.Water diverted (consumptive, environmental) 3.Forecast climate for season Tributary inflows Demand patterns System losses 4.Calculate state shares

9. Flood Operations 1.Rainfall, tributary flows, storage volumes 2.Developing continuous real time rain fall / run off models 3.Data reliability Instrumentation Power Communications

10. Operational Data System

11. Manual Data Import Process Flow Diagram QPerryHYDRO G-MW Dartmouth Email G-MW Kerang Fax Email G-MW Tatura Email DWE Hume Email DWE Deniliquin Email DWE Menindee Email DWE Mildura Fax DWE Dareton Email DWLBC Berri Fax SA Water Goolwa Email Snowy Hydro Email State Water Leeton Fax Torrumbarry Weir Fax Yarrawonga Weir Manual Data Entry Process Operations Spreadsheets

12. RMW FTP RMW Telemetry DWLBC Telemetry DWE Telemetry BoM Telemetry DWE FTPBoM FTP Automated Import Process HydstraHYDRO Operations Spreadsheets

13. Summary What BOM can assist with ; Investment to extend (upgrade) network Uniform RTU specification National solution – cheap reliable communications National standard – site names, parameters and quality codes National approach data exchange protocols