WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011
WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER
SOURCES 2011
- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 January 2015
- Reg 111 of 2011
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
Note
1. Name of this Plan
2. Nature and status of this Plan
3. Commencement of this Plan
4. Application of this Plan
5. Management zones
6. Understanding the rules in this Plan
7. Interpretation
PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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8. Vision statement
9. Objectives
10. Strategies
11. Performance indicators
PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME
12. Bulk access regime
13. Climatic variability
PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
Note
14. General
15. Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
16. Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water
17. (Repealed)
PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER
Division 1 - General
18. Application
Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights
19. Domestic and stock rights
20. Native title rights
Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences
21. Share components of domestic and stock access licences
22. Share components of local water utility access licences
23. Share components of major utility access licences
24. Share components of aquifer access licences
PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit
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25. General
26. Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
27. Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
28. Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
29. Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits
Division 2 - Available water determinations
30. General
31. Available water determinations made at the commencement of each water year
PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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32. Specific purpose access licences
32A. Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation
PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
33. General
34. Individual access licence account management rules for these groundwater sources, excluding the Botany Sands Groundwater Source, the Hawkesbury Alluvium Groundwater Source and the Maroota Tertiary Sands Groundwater Source
34A. Individual access licence account management rules for the Botany Sands Groundwater Source, the Hawkesbury Alluvium Groundwater Source and the Maroota Tertiary Sands Groundwater Source
Division 2 - Daily access rules
35. General
36. Access rules for the taking of water
PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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37. General
38. Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
39. Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
40. Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
41. Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
42. Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
43. (Repealed)
44. Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances
PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
45. General
46. Conversion of access licence to new category
47. Assignment of rights dealings (within groundwater sources)
48. Amendment of share component dealings (change of groundwater source)
49. Amendment of extraction component dealings
50. Assignment of water allocations dealings
51. Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
52. Nomination of water supply works dealings
PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
Division 1 - General
52A. General
Division 2 - Access licences
Note
53. General
Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
Note
54. General
PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN
55. General
56. Part 1
57. Part 4
58. Part 6
59. Part 7
60. Part 8
61. Part 9
62. Part 11
63. Schedules
64. Other
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 4
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
APPENDIX 3
APPENDIX 4
APPENDIX 5