New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE BELLINGER RIVER AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2008 - REG 37

37 Runoff harvesting dams

(1) New or expanded runoff harvesting dams shall, in addition to other considerations, be subject to the dam capacity not exceeding that which is consistent with the access licence share component specifying the runoff harvesting dam as the nominated work.

(2) When the share component of an access licence that nominates an approval for a runoff harvesting dam is reduced either by the Minister, or on application of the approval holder, or by an assignment in accordance with Part 12 of this Plan, the Minister shall impose an additional condition requiring the dam to be modified so as to reduce its capacity, or requiring the water taken and evaporated from the dam to be reduced, consistent with the reduction in share component.

Note: Extraction of water from a runoff harvesting dam requires an unregulated river access licence nominating an approval for a runoff harvesting dam, unless the runoff harvesting dam is within the maximum harvestable right dam capacity for the property on which it is located, in which case no licences or approvals are required.

Note: Following the assignment of water allocations from a water allocation account of an access that nominates an approval for a runoff harvesting dam, the Minister may impose conditions requiring that runoff harvesting dam by-pass flows.