New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE KANGAROO RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 62

62 Access to very low flows

Access licence holders on Schedule 5 may extract water during very low flows in accordance with clause 46 to 48 in the following circumstances:

(a) access to very low flows shall only be available during years 2 to 8 of this Plan in accordance with subclauses (b) to (f),

(b) extraction in the very low flow class can commence on the next day following 7 consecutive days of cease to pump flow conditions referred to in clause 17 (a),

(c) the volume of water that may be extracted in the very low flow class is limited to a proportion of the TDEL identified at clause 46 available as an IDEL to that access licence, or to the combined very low flow class IDEL of all access licences within an approved group,

(d) extraction from the very low flow class shall cease when:

(i) flow is at or below 2 ML/day (for years 2 to 5 of this Plan) and 2.96 ML/day (for years 6 to 8 of this Plan) at the flow reference point, or

(ii) after 10 days of consecutive access to very low flows, or

which ever circumstance occurs first,

(e) the count for the 7 consecutive days of very low flow access referred to in clause (b) can only recommence once flows recorded at the flow reference point reach:

(i) 5.4 ML/day in year 2 of this Plan, or

(ii) 7 ML/day in years 3 to 8 of this Plan, and

(f) if an access licence on Schedule 5 is cancelled, not renewed, or is assigned elsewhere, then it shall be removed from the Schedule.