WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION UNREGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 37
Environmental contingency allowance rules for these water sources
WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE GREATER METROPOLITAN REGION UNREGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2011 - REG 37
Environmental contingency allowance rules for these water sources
37 Environmental contingency allowance rules for these water sources
(1) An
environmental contingency allowance (hereafter
"ECA" ) account must be kept for Avon Dam, Cataract Dam, Nepean Dam and
Cordeaux Dam in the Upper Nepean and Upstream Warragamba Water Source.
(2) At
the commencement of this Plan and each water year after the first water year
in which this Plan has effect, a volume of water may be set aside in Avon Dam,
Cataract Dam, Nepean Dam or Cordeaux Dam (or a combination of these dams) and
credited to the respective ECA account for these dams in accordance with the
written direction of the Minister.
(3) Releases of water from the ECA account
for Avon Dam, Cataract Dam, Nepean Dam or Cordeaux Dam established under
subclause (1) may only be made for the purposes to be determined by the
Minister as part of the review in subclause (7).
(4) Water credited to an ECA
account established under subclause (1) for the purposes determined in
accordance with subclause (3) must be released from a dam referred in
subclause (1) in accordance with the written direction of the Minister.
(5)
The ECA account for a water storage must be debited with a volume equal to the
amount of water released from a dam referred to in subclause (1) under
subclause (3).
(6) The Minister may conduct a review of the rules in this
clause for the purpose of determining whether those rules should be amended,
including identifying the volume of the ECA and the environmental purpose(s)
for which it should be used.
(7) The volume of water held in an ECA account
established under subclause (1) shall not be carried over from one water year
to the next.
