The Mid-Murray Storage Project will capture a portion of the flow saved by decommissioning Lake Mokoan, and store this water at Lake Boga, Lake Charm and Kangaroo Lake. To allow effective release of the captured unregulated flow back in the River Murray, Lake Boga needs a new outlet channel.

New or enhanced channels are also required to ensure the Mid-Murray Storage Project does not aggravate flooding problems associated with flows from the Avoca River and Loddon River.

Options to outfall water from Lake Boga were considered including channels to the Little Murray River or the River Murray, passing under the Little Murray weir pool. Based on environmental, heritage, planning, geotechnical and costing assessments a channel supplying water to the Little Murray River was preferred.

Affected landowners have been consulted on the options, and advised why the preferred option was chosen.

The proposed works will affect a limited number of landowners downstream of Kangaroo Lake and farming enterprises downstream of Lake Boga.