New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE COOPERS CREEK WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 46

46 Total daily extraction limits

(1) This Plan establishes a total daily extraction limit (hereafter "TDEL") for each flow class as follows:

(a) in the Upper Coopers Creek Management Zone:

(i) 1.53 ML/day for A Class,

(ii) 4.92 ML/day for B Class, and

(iii) 5.09 ML/day for C Class.

(b) in the Lower Coopers Creek Management Zone:

(i) 16.54 ML/day for A Class,

(ii) 53.15 ML/day for B Class, and

(iii) 54.98 ML/day for C Class.

Note: The combined TDEL in each flow class represent 45% of the top of A Class flows, 45% of the top of B Class flows and for C Class flows 30% of the 30 th percentile flows in December.

Note: The TDELs for the Upper and Lower Coopers Creek Management Zones have been established based on the proportion of total access licence share component within each management zone at the commencement of this Plan.

(2) The TDEL for each flow class specified in subclause (1) applies to all rivers within the specified zone of this water source, apart from those rivers identified as minor streams in a harvestable rights order made under section 54 of the Act.

Note: The harvestable rights order applying to this water source at the commencement of this Plan is that gazetted on 23 March 2001 under section 54 of the Act. It identifies minor streams as non-permanent 1st and 2nd order streams as shown on topographic maps.