New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MURRUMBIDGEE REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 20 June 2006
- Reg 1038 of 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Water source and waters to which this Plan applies
   5.      Interpretation
   6.      Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
   7.      State Water Management Outcomes Plan

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   8.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   9.      Vision
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   13.     Environmental water provisions
   14.     Planned environmental water
   15.     Planned environmental water
   16.     Adaptive environmental water

   PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   17.     Basic landholder rights
   18.     Domestic and stock rights
   19.     Native title rights

   PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   20.     Bulk access regime

   PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   21.     Requirements for water under access licences
   22.     Share component for domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share component for local water utility access licences
   24.     Share component for regulated river (high security) access licences
   25.     Share component for regulated river (general security) access licences
   26.     Share component for Murrumbidgee Irrigation (conveyance) access licence
   27.     Share component for Coleambally Irrigation (conveyance) access licence
   28.     Share component for supplementary water access licences
   29.     Changes to total share component

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   30.     Rules for granting access licences

   PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit

   31.     Limits to the availability of water
   32.     Volume of the long-term extraction limit
   33.     Assessment of the long-term extraction limit and current level of long-term average annual extraction
   34.     Compliance with the long-term extraction limit

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   35.     Available water determinations
   36.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   40.     Available water determinations for Murrumbidgee Irrigation (conveyance) access licences
   41.     Available water determinations for Coleambally Irrigation (conveyance) access licences
   42.     Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

   43.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management

   44.     Water allocation accounts
   45.     Accrual of water allocations
   46.     Volume taken under access licences
   47.     Accounting of assigned water allocations and return flows
   48.     Account forfeits/limits/carryover

           Division 2 - Extraction conditions

   49.     General priority of extractions
   50.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   51.     Extraction of water under supplementary water access licences

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   52.     Access licence dealing rules
   53.     Rules relating to constraints within a water source
   54.     Rules for change of water source
   55.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   56.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer
   57.     Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
   58.     Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

   59.     Mandatory conditions on access licences
   60.     Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals

   PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   61.     System operation rules
   62.     Provisional storage volume
   63.     Replenishment flows
   64.     Minimum flow levels
   65.     Channel capacity constraints
   66.     Rates of change to storage releases
   67.     Flood operation rules
   68.     Airspace operation rules
   69.     Flows in the Lowbidgee Flood Control and Irrigation District

   PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING

   70.     Monitoring

   PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   71.     Changes to this water source
   72.     Review of environmental water and provisional storage volume rules
   73.     Review of access rules for supplementary water access licence holders and Lowbidgee Flood Control and Irrigation District
   74.     Other amendments of this Plan
   75.     Amendment relating to planned environmental water
   76.     Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           Schedule 5 (Repealed)