New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE LOWER MURRUMBIDGEE GROUNDWATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 28A

28A Compliance with extraction limits

(1) Water extraction in these groundwater sources will be monitored each water year to determine if there is any growth in volume extracted above the extraction limit specified in clause 27, based on a comparison of the extraction limit against the average extraction within each groundwater source over that year and the preceding 2 years.

Note: Growth in extractions may occur due to the granting of new licences in accordance with Part 8 of this Plan.

(2) For the purposes of auditing compliance with the extraction limit, if water that:

(a) pursuant to an access licence is committed as adaptive environmental water to be left in the aquifer for environmental purposes, then extraction will be assumed to be equal to 100% of the available water determination made under clause 29, or

(b) pursuant to an access licence is committed as adaptive environmental water to be extracted for environmental purposes, then extraction will be that measured through the approved water supply work (bore).

(3) If the 3 year average of extraction in a groundwater source exceeds the extraction limit established in clause 27 by 5% or greater, then the available water determination made for aquifer access licences under clause 29 (6) for the following water year, should be reduced by an amount that is assessed necessary by the Minister to return subsequent total water extraction to the extraction limit for that groundwater source.