WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION UNREGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2011
- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 14 January 2018
- Reg 112 of 2011
Table of Provisions
PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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- 1 Name of Plan
- 2 Nature and status of this Plan
- 3 Commencement of this Plan
- 4 Application of this Plan
- 5 Management zones
- 6 Extraction management units in these water sources
- 7 Understanding the rules in this Plan
- 8 Interpretation
PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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- 9 Vision statement
- 9A Acknowledgement
- 10 Objectives
- 11 Strategies
- 12 Performance indicators
PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME
- 13 Bulk access regime
- 14 Climatic variability
PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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- 15 General
- 16 Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
- 17 Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water
18. (Repealed)
PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER
Division 1 - General
Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights
- 20 Domestic and stock rights
- 21 Native title rights
- 22 Harvestable rights
Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences
- 23 Share components of domestic and stock access licences
- 24 Share components of local water utility access licences
- 25 Share components of unregulated river access licences
- 26 Share components of major utility access licences
PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES
- 27 General
- 28 Environmental flow releases in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
- 29 Releases for Shoalhaven City Council from Tallowa Dam in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
- 30 Transfer rules from the Shoalhaven River Water Source to the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
- 31 Interchange rules for Fitzroy Falls Reservoir and Lake Yarrunga in the Shoalhaven River Water Source
- 32 Environmental flow releases in the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
- 33 Releases for other purposes in the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source
- 34 Environmental flow releases in the Hawkesbury and Lower Nepean Rivers Water Source
- 35 Releases for environmental and town water supply purposes in the Hawkesbury and Lower Nepean Rivers Water Source
- 36 Environmental flow releases in the Southern Sydney Rivers Water Source
- 37 Environmental contingency allowance rules for these water sources
- 38 Banked environmental flow rules for these water sources
- 39 Environmental flows reference group for these water sources
- 39A Investigations into environmental release rules
PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit
- 40 General
- 41 Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
- 42 Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
- 43 Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
- 44 Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits
Division 2 - Available water determinations
- 45 General
- 46 Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
- 47 Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
- 48 Available water determinations for major utility (subcategory "Urban water") access licences
- 49 Available water determinations for major utility (subcategory "Power generation") access licences
- 50 Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
- 51 Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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- 52 Specific purpose access licences
- 52A Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation
PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules
- 53 General
- 54 Individual access licence account management rules
Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules
- 55 General
- 56 Flow classes
- 57 Access rules for the taking of surface water
- 58 Total daily extraction limits
- 59 Assignment of TDELs to categories of access licences
- 60 Individual daily extraction limits
PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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- 61 General
- 62 Granting or amending water supply work approvals
PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
- 63 General
- 64 Conversion of access licence to new category
- 65 Assignment of rights dealings
- 66 Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
- 67 Amendment of extraction component dealings
- 68 Assignment of water allocation dealings
- 69 Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
- 70 Nomination of water supply works dealings
PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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Division 1 - General
Division 2 - Access licences
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Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN
- 73 General
- 74 Part 1
- 75 Part 6
- 76 Part 7
- 77 Part 8
- 78 Part 9
- 79 Part 10
- 80 Part 11
- 81 Schedules
- 82 Other