New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER MURRUMBIDGEE GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 27

27 Extraction limits

(1) This Division is made in accordance with section 20 (2) (a) of the Act.

(2) The extraction limit for each groundwater source each year of this Plan is the recharge established in clause 16, minus the proportion of recharge reserved as planned environmental water in clause 18, plus total water made available to supplementary water access licences under clause 29, plus the total requirements for basic landholder rights at the commencement of this plan, and are initially as follows:

(a) 10,000 ML/yr in the Shallow Groundwater Source, plus the total requirements for basic landholder rights at the commencement of this plan, and

(b) 270,000 ML/yr in the Deep Groundwater Source, plus total water made available to supplementary water access licences under clause 29, plus the total requirements for basic landholder rights at the commencement of this plan.