Southern Rural Water invites your feedback on our draft Recreational Area Management Plans. Please provide your feedback prior to the 9 February 2026.
The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) updated the Water (Recreational Area) Regulations 2023. The regulations provide for the control, management and use of recreational areas and provide for infringement offences and penalties. These infringement penalties were not available in the superseded Model By-Law: Recreational Areas 2012.

The regulations came into operation in August 2023, replacing Southern Rural Water’s Recreational Area By-Law.

A key feature of the regulations is the requirement for water corporations to develop management plans for recreational areas under their jurisdiction.

A Recreational Area Management Plan is a comprehensive document designed to manage and support the sustainable use and protection of water resources at a water storage used for recreation.

We have published draft recreational area management plans for Blue Rock Lake, Lake Glenmaggie, Pykes Creek Reservoir, Cowwarr Weir, Melton Reservoir and Merrimu Reservoir on our website. We would strongly encourage you to read these before completing this survey. Our draft plans are available here.

We will use the feedback you provide in this survey to better understand visitor priorities, recreational needs, facilities requirements and your future aspirations for our recreational areas. This will help us further refine our plans before publishing final drafts in the first half of 2026.

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* Please tell us which of the following recreational areas you have visited or used in the last 12 months.

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