Step 1 - Planning

Our Land Development department assists developers in ensuring that all new developments have availability to reticulated water and/or sewer. All extensions to the Goulburn Valley Water reticulation network are developer funded. 

For developments that require the construction of new water and/or sewerage infrastructure, developers must use a Goulburn Valley Water Accredited Consultant and Contractor (see lists below). The Corporation will work through the Land Development process with the Consultant acting on the Developers behalf. 

Once the Developer funded infrastructure has been constructed, the assets are transferred to GVW, becoming part of our growing network.

Prior to your development application, we encourage you to contact the Goulburn Valley Water Property Services Team to obtain asset location information of the property by phoning 5832 4640 Monday to Friday 8:00 am - 4:15 pm, emailing property@gvwater.vic.gov.au  or you can submit an online request. 

They will be able to give you an asset plan of existing water and/or sewer infrastructure, an internal drainage plan if available and if requested, indicate if the property is located inside declared water supply and/or sewer districts. 

You may require information from us regarding water pressure and flow of the existing water infrastructure. To obtain this information, please complete a Pressure and Flow Application form. Fees apply. Please allow 28 Days for the application to be processed. 

Consultants may require a hydraulic flow assessment of our existing networks to determine servicing requirements. Please note GVW will not design the layout of the development. To obtain this information, please complete a Water and Sewer Servicing Assessment Request. Please allow 21 business days to be processed.