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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE COOPERS CREEK WATER SOURCE 2003 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Dictionary

The following definitions apply to this Plan in addition to the definitions set out in the Act:
"account water" is the balance in an access licence water allocation account at a particular time.

Note: An access licence water allocation account records water allocations accrued under the licence as well as water allocations taken, assigned or re-credited. The operation of the account is also governed by rules for the carrying over of credits from one accounting period to the next and rules for the maximum credit that may be allowed to accumulate in the account as established in a water sharing plan. Water allocations are the shares of available water accrued under an access licence from time to time as a result of available water determinations.
"conversion factor" refers to the adjustment factor that is to be applied to an access licence share component when it is cancelled in one water source, and reissued in a different water source and visa versa, or when the access licence is converted from one category to another. It is designed to provide for the fact that the value of a unit of share component in terms of the average water allocations that result from it may vary from one water source to another, or from one category to another.
"endangered ecological communities" means ecological communities listed in Schedule 1 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or Schedule 4 of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 .
"extraction limit" is a limit on the amount of water that may be extracted from an extraction management unit.
"extraction management unit" is a group of water sources for the purpose of managing annual average extraction.
"farm dam" is a privately owned dam typically of earthen construction designed to collect and/or store water for use on one or a few properties. It does not include publicly owned dams or weirs. See also "in-river dam" and "runoff harvesting dam".
"flow classes" are categorised by the size and duration of flow levels in unregulated rivers, for example:
(a) Very Low Flows may be a class on their own,
(b) low flows may be categorised as A Class flows,
(c) moderate flows may be categorised as B Class flows, and
(d) high flows may be categorised as C Class flows.
"flow gauging station" is a device that is used to measure the height of a river, from which the flow in the river can be calculated.
"individual daily extraction limit (IDEL)" is the volume of water that may be extracted by an individual access licence from an unregulated river on a daily basis from a particular flow class.
"infrastructure" includes, but is not limited to, a:
(a) flow gauging device or any other appliance that is used to measure the height of a river relative to a known datum point, from which the flow in the river can be calculated, or
(b) flow announcement system which is the mechanism by which the Minister communicates daily flow classes to the holders of an access licence within this water source.
"in-river dam" is a dam on a 3rd, 4th or higher order river. 3rd, 4th or higher order rivers are as defined in the Order made under section 5 of the Water Act 1912 in relation to the definition of a “river” gazetted 23 March 2001. See also "farm dam" and "runoff harvesting dam".
"stock watering" means the watering of stock being raised on the land, but does not include the use of water in connection with intensive animal husbandry.
"runoff harvesting dam" is a farm dam on a hillside or 1st or 2nd order stream which collects and stores rainfall runoff. 1st and 2nd order streams are as defined in the Order made under section 5 of the Water Act 1912 in relation to the definition of a river gazetted 23 March 2001. See also "farm dam" and "in-river dam".
Note: This Order refers to watercourses shown as blue lines on topographic maps. The lines which are uppermost in a catchment are 1st order streams, when two 1st order streams are joined they make a 2nd order stream, etc. For more information, see the Farm Dams Assessment Guide available from the Department of Water and Energy.
"total daily extraction limit (TDEL)" is the volume of water that may be extracted under access licences from an unregulated river on a daily basis from a particular flow class.


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