The South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources has moved to implement a series of programs designed to use the extra 300 gigalitres of environmental water resources allocated to the River Murray wetlands.

The extra flows are the result of an announcement by Federal Water Minister Mark Butler, who said the water would travel to the Murray mouth over the next seven months. Now plans are being created to make sure it can be utilised most effectively.

The release of water will go a long way to boosting the health of some areas, according to the department's wetlands manager, Tumi Bjornsson.

“The actual water will definitely help with some of the lower lying wetlands that will get a bit of extra water coming into them, so they will probably inundate a little bit more of the fringing areas.”

Mr Bjornsson says one of the first avenues for the new flows will be the implementation of a project at Lock 1 at Blanchetown.

“One of the ideas behind the weir pool manipulation project that we've been looking at is more efficiently using the infrastructure we've got to be able to inundate areas when we actually do have a little bit extra flow, so with this extra water it just means that it is probably going to be easier for us to actually go ahead with that project,” he said.