New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MURRUMBIDGEE REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 65

65 Channel capacity constraints

Where necessary for determining extraction rights, managing water releases or providing water under access licences, the maximum operating channel capacity shall be determined and specified in accordance with procedures established by the Minister, taking into account:

(a) inundation of private land or interference with access,

(b) the effects of inundation on the floodplain and associated wetlands,

(c) the transmission losses expected to occur, and

(d) consideration of State Water Management Outcomes Plan targets.

Operation of the system at the commencement of this Plan has the following constraints on maximum flows:

(a) 9,000 ML/day in the Tumut River at Oddys Bridge

(b) 9,300 ML/day in the Tumut River at Tumut

(c) 32,000 ML/day in the Murrumbidgee River at Gundagai, and

(d) 1,400 ML/day in Yanco Creek at the Offtake.