Landholders and water users will receive updates this week on the progress of temporary Peel River weirs and the permanent Chaffey Dam-Dungowan village pipeline.
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WaterNSW will hold information sessions on drought and water security works to extend supplies to Tamworth and Dungowan.
The first two 90-minute sessions will be held at Dungowan - the first this afternoon from 4pm at the recreation grounds and the second tonight from 7pm at Dungowan Hotel.
The final meeting will be held at Tamworth Community Centre on Tuesday night from 7pm.
To attend a session, RSVP to waternsw.droughtresponse@waternsw.com.au or 1300 662 077.
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WaterNSW called the works "the crucial next phase ... to secure water for critical human needs".
The sessions are "on the preferred route for the pipeline and results of environmental investigations and technical requirements for construction of the temporary weir on the Peel River at Dungowan".
The state government announced in June its plan to reduce the amount of water lost during transmission by sending it via a proposed new $3.4 million pipeline from Chaffey Dam to Dungowan.
It also committed to temporary weirs at the Peel River-Dungowan Creek junction and at the Jewry Street bridge in Tamworth, so water can be pumped "out of the river and in to the pre-existing TRC pipeline that will bring that water in to Tamworth".
WaterNSW called the plans "emergency short-term measures to extend water supply to [the] Tamworth, Moonbi and Kootingal town water supply system".
