WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE HUNTER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2009

Table of Provisions

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

• 1 Name of this Plan
• 2 Nature and Status of this Plan
• 3 Date of commencement
• 4 Water sources to which this Plan applies
• 5 Management zones
• 6 Amendment of this Part
• 6A Extraction management unit for these water sources
• 6B Understanding the rules of this Plan
• 7 Interpretation

PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• 8 Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
• 9 Vision
• 9A Acknowledgment
• 10 Objectives
• 11 Strategies
• 12 Performance indicators

PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

• 13 Basis for water sharing
• 14 Climatic variability
15. (Repealed)
• 16 Flow reference points
• 17 Flow classes for these water sources

PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

• 18 Environmental water provisions
• 19 Planned environmental water
20. (Repealed)

PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

• 21 Basic landholder rights
• 22 Domestic and stock rights
• 23 Native title rights
• 24 Harvestable rights

PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

• 25 Bulk access regime

PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

• 26 Requirements for water under access licences
• 27 Share component of domestic and stock access licences
• 28 Share component of local water utility access licences
• 29 Share component of major utility access licences
• 30 Share component of unregulated river access licences
• 31 Share component of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
• 32 Share component of aquifer access licences
• 33 Changes to total share components

PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

• 34 Rules for granting access licences
• 34A Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

PART 9 - RULES FOR GRANTING OR AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

Division 1 - General

• 35 Granting or amending water supply works approvals
• 36 Runoff harvesting dams and in-river dams
• 37 In-river dams

Division 2 - Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

• 38 Rules for granting or amending approvals for water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
• 39 Rules for granting water supply works approvals
• 40 Rules for granting water supply works approvals near contamination sources
• 40A Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
• 41 Rules for granting water supply works approvals near sensitive environmental areas
• 41A Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

PART 10 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

• 42 Limits to the availability of water
• 43 Extraction management unit for these water sources
• 44 Long-term average annual extraction limit
• 45 Variation of the long-term average annual extraction limits
• 46 Assessment of the long-term average annual extraction limits
• 47 Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

Division 2 - Available water determinations

• 48 Available water determinations
• 49 Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
• 50 Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
• 51 Available water determinations for major utility access licences
• 52 Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
• 53 Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
• 54 Available water determination for aquifer access licences

PART 11 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

Division 1 - General

• 55 Rules for managing access licences

Division 2 - Water allocation account management

• 56 Individual access licence account management rules
• 57 Accounting for bulk water transfers to other water utilities

Division 3 - Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis

• 58 Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis
• 59 Establishment and assignment of total daily extraction limits
• 60 Unassigned TDEL
• 61 Granting of unassigned TDEL
• 62 Individual daily extraction limits for access licences
• 63 Adjustment to TDELS and IDELS
• 64 Administrative arrangements for managing access to daily flows (approved groups)
• 65 Amendments to this Plan for the purposes of sharing of surface water flows on a daily basis
• 66 Williams River Water Source Accreditation Scheme
• 67 Access to the Very Low Flow Class in these water sources

Division 4 - Management of surface and groundwater connectivity

• 68 Access licences which nominate a water supply work which may be used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

PART 12 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

• 69 Access licence dealing rules
• 70 Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
• 71 Rules for change of water source
• 72 Rules for conversion of access licence category
• 73 Rules for interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
• 74 Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources

PART 13 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

Division 1 - General

• 75 General

Division 2 - Access licences

• 76 General

Division 3 - Water supply work approvals

• 77 General
• 78 Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
79-84. (Repealed)

PART 14 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

• 85 Release rules from major utility storages

PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

• 86 Amendment of this Plan
• 87 Amendment of tidal pool provisions
• 88 Amendment of pool protection provisions
• 89 Amendments due to floodplain harvesting
• 90 Amendments to access rules
• 91 Amendments for alluvial aquifers downstream of the tidal limit
• 92 Amendments for stormwater harvesting
• 93 Amendments in relation to Schedule 2 (Very Low Flow)
• 94 Amendments in relation to the mandatory conditions
• 95 Other amendments to this Plan
• SCHEDULE 1
• SCHEDULE 2
• SCHEDULE 3
Schedule 4 (Repealed)
• APPENDIX 1
• APPENDIX 2
• APPENDIX 3