New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 15

15 Climatic variability

(1) This Plan recognises climatic variability and therefore river flow and groundwater level variability in these water sources.

(2) To give effect to subclause (1), this Plan has provisions that manage:

(a) the sharing of water in these water sources within the limits of water availability on a long-term average annual basis,

(b) the sharing of flows that occur in specified water sources on a daily basis, and

(c) water extraction to maintain groundwater dependent ecosystems.