A code of practice is being implemented in the Angas Bremer region to provide accreditation to growers who are successfully improving their irrigation management.

To comply with the code, growers must complete Irrigation Annual Reports, minimise drainage below their crops rootzones and plant and maintain deep-rooted, winter-active vegetation.

Growers who meet the code will be accredited.

The benefits to growers from accreditation are still being developed. Three current benefits are:

• the right to promote their good environmental management by using a new logo
  
• the minimisation of data-collection-and-reporting requirements
  
• automatic compliance with the water module of a new grape growers Environmental Management System (EMS).

This Code of Practice has been produced by the local water management committee to assist irrigators in complying with the innovative land and water management policies in the Water Allocation Plan for the Angas Bremer Prescribed Wells Area (adopted 2 January 2001).

Further Reading:

Brochure - A Code of Practice for managing irrigation in the Angas Bremer (275 Kb)

The Angas Bremer Water Management Committee has developed best management practice (BMP) guidelines for watercourse diverters in the region. The BMP includes:  

• only diverting water that is below a certain salinity

• recording the area inundated and average depth and duration of inundation

• notifying neigbours, and

• ongoing monitoring of vegetation health

Further Reading

Watercourse Best Management Practice Guidelines (137Kb)

Vegetation health monitoring tool (225Kb)

Diversion Monitoring Tool (117Kb)

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