New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE DORRIGO PLATEAU SURFACE WATER SOURCE AND DORRIGO BASALT GROUNDWATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2006
- Reg 174 of 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Area to which this Plan applies
   5.      Waters to which this Plan applies
   6.      Interpretation
   7.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   8.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

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

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   14.     Basis for water sharing
   15.     Climatic variability
   16.     Extraction management unit for the surface water source
   17.     Flow classes for the surface water source
   18.     Flow reference point for the surface water source
   19.     Determination of flow class for the surface water source
   20.     Recharge for the groundwater source

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   21.     Environmental water provisions
   22.     Planned environmental water
   23.     Extraction by water supply work
   24.     Planned environmental water
   25.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   26.     Basic landholder rights
   27.     Domestic and stock rights
   28.     Native title rights
   29.     Harvestable rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   30.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   31.     Requirements for water under access licences
   32.     Estimate of water requirements

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   33.     Rules for granting access licences
   34.     Aboriginal assessment of new access licences

   PART 9 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average extraction limit

   35.     Limits to the availability of water
   36.     Extraction management unit for the surface water source
   37.     Long-term average extraction limits
   38.     Variation of the long-term average extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   39.     Available water determinations

   PART 10 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   40.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   41.     Water allocation account management
   42.     Water allocation accounts
   43.     Accrual of water allocations
   44.     Annual accounting for water extraction
   45.     Three year accounting for surface water extraction

           Division 3 - Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis

   46.     Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis
   47.     Total daily extraction limits
   48.     Initial assignment of the TDEL to categories of access licences
   49.     Unassigned TDEL
   50.     Daily extraction limits for individual access licence holders
   51.     Granting of unassigned TDEL
   52.     Adjustment to TDELs and IDELs
   53.     Administrative arrangements for managing access to daily flows
   54.     Infrastructure failure in this surface water source

           Division 4 - Management of local impacts in the groundwater source

   55.     Management of local impacts in the groundwater source
   56.     Extraction interference between neighbouring bores
   57.     Water level management
   58.     Water quality management
   59.     Protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems
   60.     Extraction restrictions
   61.     Group registration
   62.     Infrastructure failure in this groundwater source

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   63.     Access licence dealing rules
   64.     Rules relating to constraints within this surface water source
   65.     Rules relating to constraints within this groundwater source
   66.     Rules for access licence dealings which alter the times, rates or circumstances specified in access licence extraction components
   67.     Rules for change of surface water source
   68.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   69.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   70.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources
   71.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   72.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   73.     Very low flow access conditions in the surface water source
   74.     Unregulated river access licences
   75.     Local water utility access licences
   76.     Domestic and stock access licences
   77.     Runoff harvesting access licences
   78.     Unregulated river and aquifer (Aboriginal cultural) access licences
   79.     Unregulated river (research) and aquifer (research) access licences
   80.     Unregulated river (Aboriginal commercial) access licences
   81.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 13 - GRANTING AND AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

   82.     Granting and amending water supply works approvals
   83.     Runoff harvesting dams
   84.     In-river dams

   PART 14 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   85.     Monitoring and reporting of performance indicators

   PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   86.     Amendment of this Plan
   87.     Amendment of very low flow provisions
   88.     Review of field verification
   89.     Other amendment of this Plan
   90.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   91.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
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           Schedule 4 (Repealed)