Town of Mosman Park, Shire of Peppermint Grove to cut back on water use after hitting limit
The two Western suburbs councils will reduce the use of water after maximizing annual groundwater allocation and the other will pass over the limit.
Mosman Park Town is trying to reduce water consumption with various measures that it exceeded 15.283KL last year last year.
These include focusing on irrigation and raising irrigation systems for high -use sports fields that serve irrigation only for an aesthetic purpose.
Mint Grove Shire will also reduce the use of water after finding itself on the annual groundwater allocation limit.
The four areas in the Shire are left out of the irrigation cycle after arriving below the maximum water allocation during the previous financial year.
Shire CEO Don Burnett said at a recent council meeting that it includes a proposed area to be transformed into Verge Park along Mr. View Terrace and Keane Street.
“The area we are talking about in Bayview and King will be excluded from our irrigation cycle because it is one of the places we set to achieve our goal to remove water,” he said.
Mr. Burnett said, “Probably won’t go” water.
“This year we were on the border with our water allocation and we set four points to cut it,” he said.
Mint Grove, which covers approximately 1.1 mqkm, increased 43.885KL of the 44,025KL groundwater appropriation annually during the 2024-25 fiscal year.
In contrast, the city of Subiaco, which is approximately 7 mqkm, has approximately 10 times the amount of groundwater in its distribution in 444.921KL.
Cambridge Town, the largest local government area in Western suburbs, receives an additional 580.025kl for the highest amount of water and Wembley golf field with 1.405.200kl per year.
The Ministry of Water and Environment Regulation said that the total water authority licensed to a local administration is determined by the total area of the public open area under irrigation.
“In general, water licenses for irrigation are calculated according to the type of use type irrigation agreed per hectare,” he said.
