East Gippsland Water serves an area of 21,000 square kilometres in the far south east of Victoria, which boasts some of Australia’s most diverse and spectacular scenery and a population of around 49,422 people.
Our service area extends east from Lindenow, through to the region’s capital Bairnsdale, the holiday centres of Paynesville and Lakes Entrance, on to the wilderness coast and Mallacoota near the New South Wales border. It also serves as far north as Dinner Plain in the High Country of the Victorian Alps.
We have nine separate water supply systems that serve the communities of:
- Bairnsdale
- Bemm River
- Bruthen
- Buchan
- Cann River
- Dinner Plain
- Eagle Point
- Johnsonville
- Lakes Entrance
- Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust and Lake Tyers Beach
- Lindenow and Lindenow South
- Mallacoota
- Marlo
- Metung
- Newlands Arm
- Newmerella
- Nicholson
- Nowa Nowa
- Omeo
- Orbost
- Paynesville
- Raymond Island
- Sarsfield
- Swan Reach
- Swifts Creek.
Eleven water recycling systems serve the communities of:
- Bairnsdale
- Bemm River
- Bruthen
- Cann River
- Dinner Plain
- Eagle Point
- Johnsonville
- Lakes Entrance
- Lake Tyers Beach
- Lindenow
- Mallacoota
- Marlo
- Metung
- Newlands Arm
- Nicholson
- Omeo
- Orbost
- Paynesville
- Raymond Island
- Swan Reach.
There are many different agencies that work together to manage water resources in Gippsland. See the Who Does What in Water booklet to learn more.
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The East Gippsland Water region embraces an area formerly administered by four water boards. East Gippsland Region Water Corporation was initially established as East Gippsland Region Water Authority on 1 January 1995, by Ministerial Order and under powers conferred by the Water Act 1989.
The Corporation delivers the full range of retail water services including water harvesting, storage and urban water supply. It also provides wastewater collection, treatment and recycling services, as well as trade waste services to industrial and commercial customers.
