THE single largest allocation of environmental water bought by the federal government is to be released in NSW's Yanga National Park.
About 70 billion litres will be spread across 13,000 hectares of Red Gum floodplain and wetlands in the park located in the Murrumbidgee River area of the state's south-west.
Of that, 40 billion litres were purchased through the federal government's Water for the Future program.
The remainder of the water will come from NSW government allocations.
River Red Gum forests and threatened species, such as the southern bell frog, the fishing bat and a bird called the Australasian bittern, should benefit from the release.
Federal Water Minister Penny Wong said today the program had now reserved more than 110 billion litres for the environment.
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