Welcome to Cubbie Group Ltd (Subject to Deed of Company Arrangement)
Important notice to Stakeholders
Please be advised that John Cronin, James Harris and Colin Nicol of McGrathNicol were appointed as Deed Administrators of the Cubbie group of companies on 6 July 2010. Please refer to the McGrathNicol Website for further information and updates.
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The Cubbie Group Irrigation Project is an economic and ecological model for sustainable development in inland Australia. The main features of the model being that only a share of any river flow is harvested, ensuring continuance of flows downstream. The harvested water is stored efficiently through the use of deep storages which reduce evaporation, making more water available for irrigation. The project is integrated into the flood plain to allow the passage of flood waters and the project is a closed system. All irrigation and storm water discharge is recycled, ensuring that there is no topsoil or nutrient discharge to rivers of the Murray Darling Basin.
The Cubbie project shows how Australian initiative and engineering coupled with vision and determination can overcome obstacles to increase production while still maintaining a fragile and natural environment.
Cubbie Group management believes that the production of irrigated agriculture and a viable environment can co-exist in a sustainable manner and the group has designed and managed their properties to achieve this goal.
Cubbie Group strives to be a globally competitive low cost diversified producer of superior agricultural commodities that maximizes the use of quality agricultural land and attached water entitlements in a sustainable manner.
Key Information
All water diversions are authorised by the Condamine-Balonne Water Resource Plan
River flows - only a share of any flow is extracted ensuring flows continue to the downstream river system
Floodplain flows - the volume of floodplain flow diverted is water that would have been naturally consumed through seepage, evaporation and evapo-transpiration in the areas that are now levied off from the floodplain. This extraction has no impact on water passing downstream
Cubbie Group on average extracts only 0.28 of 1% of the Murray flow
once the volume of water is extracted, it is then stored in deep storages to minimise evaporation
the development is integrated into the floodplain to ensure the passage of flood waters to the downstream river system
the development is a closed system ensuring no nutrients or topsoil enters the rivers on the Murray Darling system
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