National telemetry Workshop

1. MDBC Structure

2. River Murray Water Data requirements

3. Operational Data Management System

SIX GOVERNMENTSAust Govt NSW Vic SA Qld ACT

MURRAY-DARLING BASINMINISTERIAL COUNCIL

Up to 3 Ministers from each Governmentrepresenting land, water and environment

CommunityAdvisory

Committee 21 Regional &special interest representatives

Commission OfficeTechnical and administrative secretariat

MURRAY-DARLING BASINCOMMISSION

1 Independent President2 Commissioners from each Government

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

River Murray Water Core Activities

1. Daily Operations

2. Resource Assessment

3. Flood Operations

Data - Daily River Operations1. Daily river heights (flows) and storage

elevation (volumes)2. Rainfall and Pan evaporation (Major

storages)3. Major diversions (Canals, Large

pumps)4. Salinity5. Forecast

• Orders• Tributary flows• Losses

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

Flood Operations

1. Rainfall, tributary flows, storage volumes

2. Developing continuous real time rain fall / run off models

3. Data reliability• Instrumentation• Power• Communications

Operational Data System

Manual Data Import ProcessFlow Diagram

QPerry

HYDRO

G-MW Dartmouth

EmailG-MW Kerang

Fax

EmailG-MW Tatura

EmailDWE Hume

EmailDWE Deniliquin

EmailDWE

Menindee

EmailDWE Mildura

FaxDWE Dareton

EmailDWLBC Berri

FaxSA Water Goolwa

EmailSnowy Hydro

EmailState Water

Leeton

FaxTorrumbarry Weir

FaxYarrawonga Weir

Manual Data Entry

Process

Operations Spreadsheet

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RMW FTP

RMW Telemetry

DWLBC Telemetry

DWE Telemetry

BoM Telemetry

DWE FTP

BoM FTP

Automated Import Process

Hydstra

HYDRO

Operations Spreadsheet

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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