A political campaign began, which aimed to increase the water flow from 1% to 28% of its original flow from the dam at Jindabyne.
After Ingram was elected to office, he became instrumental in the three shareholding governments reaching agreement to return of up to 28% ANF of an environmental flow to the Snowy River which was an outcome of the corporatisation of the Snowy Scheme, swinging the Victorian Government to sign the legislation.