WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 31
Available water determinations made at the commencement of each water year
WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 31
Available water determinations made at the commencement of each water year
31 Available water determinations made at the commencement of each water year
(1) In making available water determinations under section 59 of the Act, the
Minister should consider the rules in this clause.
(2) At the commencement of
this Plan and at the commencement of each subsequent water year, the following
available water determinations should be made for an access licence with a
share component that specifies one of these groundwater sources:
(a) 100% of
access licence share component for domestic and stock access licences,
(b)
100% of access licence share component for local water utility access
licences,
(c) 100% of access licence share component for major utility access
licences, and
(d) 1 megalitre per unit share of share component for aquifer
access licences,
or such lower amount that results from Division 1 of this
Part.
Note : Division 1 of this Part provides for available water
determinations for aquifer access licences to be reduced if, in the Minister's
opinion, assessment of average annual extractions against the long-term
average annual extraction limit under clause 28 demonstrates that annual
extractions in one of these groundwater sources has exceeded the long-term
average annual extraction limit.