Apply for a 'take and use' surface water licence

Depending where you’re located in our region, you may be eligible to apply to harvest and use surface rainfall runoff, including from streams, rivers, creeks and catchment dams.

Surface water is a precious resource and it’s important that it’s managed carefully to protect existing users and the environment.

At GWMWater, we're responsible for:

• issuing surface water ‘take and use’ licences

• supporting key environmental management strategies

• regulating surface water licence allocations according to seasonal conditions.

To harvest and use surface water including from rivers, creeks and catchment dams you must have a surface water ‘take and use’ licence.

Once you have completed the form, please email it to [email protected] or post to our Horsham office (GWMWater, PO Box 481, Horsham VIC 3402)

1. Apply for a new licence

• Application for a New or Amended Licence to Use Surface Water and to Operate Works TU2

2. Apply to renew your existing licence

• Application for Renewal of a Licence to Take and Use Surface Water and Operate Works SWR1

3. Transfer an existing licence from another landholder

• Permanent or temporary transfer of water for a take and use licence TU3

• Transfer of licence ownership on the sale of land TOL1

If you no longer need your ‘take and use’ licence, you can surrender it:

• Surrender a licence to take and use water and operate works TU4

4. Surface water meter application form