WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE COFFS HARBOUR AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2009

New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE COFFS HARBOUR AREA UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2009

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 11 November 2009
- Reg 345 of 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

1. Name of this Plan
2. Nature and Status of this Plan
3. Date of commencement
4. Water sources to which this Plan applies
5. Management Zones
6. Amendment of this Part
7. Interpretation

PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

8. Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
9. Vision
10. Objectives
11. Strategies
12. Performance indicators

PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

13. Basis for water sharing
14. Climatic variability
15. Extraction management unit for these water sources
16. Flow reference points
17. Flow classes for these surface water sources

PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

18. Environmental water provisions
19. Planned environmental water
20. Adaptive environmental water

PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

21. Basic landholder rights
22. Domestic and stock rights
23. Native title rights
24. Harvestable rights

PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

25. Bulk access regime

PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

26. Requirements for water under access licences
27. Share component of domestic and stock access licences
28. Share component of local water utility access licences
29. Share component of unregulated river access licences
30. Share component of unregulated river high flow access licences
31. Share component of aquifer access licences
32. Changes to total share components

PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

33. Rules for granting access licences

PART 9 - RULES FOR GRANTING OR AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

Division 1 - General

34. Granting or amending water supply works approvals
35. Runoff harvesting dams
36. In-river dams

Division 2 - Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

37. Rules for granting or amending approvals for water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
38. Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals
39. Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals near contamination sources
40. Rules for granting or amending water supply works approvals near sensitive environmental areas

PART 10 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

41. Limits to the availability of water
42. Extraction management units for these water sources
43. Long-term average annual extraction limit
44. Variation of the long-term average annual extraction limits
45. Assessment of the long-term average annual extraction limit
46. Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

Division 2 - Available water determinations

47. Available water determinations
48. Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
49. Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
50. Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
51. Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
52. Available water determinations for aquifer access licences

PART 11 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

Division 1 - General

53. Rules for managing access licences

Division 2 - Water allocation account management

54. Individual access licence account management rules

Division 3 - Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis

55. Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis
56. Total daily extraction limits
57. Initial assignment of the TDEL to categories of access licence
58. Unassigned TDEL
59. Granting of unassigned TDEL
60. Individual daily extraction limits for access licences
61. Amendments to this Plan for the purposes of sharing of surface water flows on a daily basis
62. Access to the Very Low Flow Class in these water sources

Division 4 - Management of surface and groundwater connectivity

63. Access licences which nominate a water supply work which may be used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

PART 12 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

64. Access licence dealing rules
65. Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
66. Rules for change of water source
67. Rules for conversion of access licence category
68. Rules for interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
69. Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources

PART 13 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

Division 1 - Mandatory conditions on access

70. Mandatory conditions on access licences
71. Mandatory conditions relating to the taking of water
72. Mandatory conditions for access to the Very Low Flow Class
73. Mandatory conditions on domestic and stock access licences
74. Mandatory conditions on aquifer access licences
75. Mandatory conditions on Aboriginal cultural access licences
76. New access licences granted in these water sources

Division 2 - Mandatory conditions on water supply work approvals

77. Mandatory conditions on all water supply work approvals (except works taking water from the alluvial sediments)
78. Mandatory conditions on approvals for water supply works taking water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
79. Mandatory conditions for existing water supply works taking water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

80. Amendment of this Plan
81. Amendments due to floodplain harvesting
82. Amendments for alluvial aquifers downstream of the tidal limit
83. Amendments for stormwater harvesting
84. Amendments in relation to Schedule 2 (Very Low Flow)
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 4
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2

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