The Rochester Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been allocated $990,000 plus GST to enhance the town's bowls club, sports museum and community playspace.

Business Network president Glenda Nichol was overjoyed by the funding and said it would add to earlier grants received by other businesses.

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"We've been very fortunate that we've been successful in quite a few grants lately," she said. "We've done some amazing things with those funds and this is just going to add to them."

The Rochester Bowls Club will receive $790,000 to install a synthetic green and an all-weather roof.

The Rochester Sports Museum will receive $100,000 to bring over the Sir Hubert Opperman Museum and the community playspace will also receive $100,000 to build a mouse house which will be painted by Jimmy D'Vate who completed the town's silo art.

"The bowls club has a lot of tournaments throughout the year where people come to town and you see them down the street shopping," Ms Nichol said.

"The funding means we can host events that we didn't previously and our 165 members can have great training facilities.

"We will be able to host more social events as well, it gets quite hot so to be able to play in the shade will be wonderful."

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The funding was part of round three of the Federal Government's Murray-Darling Basin Economic Development Program.

Member for Nicholls Damian Drum said the grants would help strengthen and diversify the economies of communities impacted by aspects of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

"For too long our Basin communities have been hurting," he said. "The program is designed to help reinvigorate those communities that have been hurt financially by the Basin Plan.

"This latest funding comes on top of more than $2.8 million Nicholls received in the previous round of the program."

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