New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH WALES MURRAY AND LOWER DARLING REGULATED RIVERS WATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 60

60 Replenishment flow

(1) Replenishment flows may be provided to the Great Anabranch, if required and subject to subclauses (2) and (3), a volume of 47,000 ML each water year will be reserved for this purpose.

(2) Replenishments under subclause (1) are subject to water being available from Lake Cawndilla after making provision for the volume of water required to supply those requirements listed in subclause (3) (a) and water allocations in subclause (3) (b) that must be supplied from Lake Cawndilla.

(3) The volume of water set aside from water available to New South Wales from Menindee Lakes water storages to provide for subclause (1) shall be the lesser of:

(a) the volume required to provide the replenishment in subclause (1), and

(b) the volume available in the Lower Darling Water Source after making provision for:

(i) the requirements of domestic and stock access licences, local water utility access licences and regulated river (high security) access licences for the water year, and

(ii) any water allocations carried over in the water allocation accounts of regulated river (general security) access licences.

(4) The Minister, under section 45 (1) (b) of the Act and by notice published in the Gazette, may replace this clause with alternative provisions, provided that these do not require that more water be provided to the Great Anabranch than would be provided under subclauses (1) to (3).

Note: A piped water system is currently being constructed to replace the need for the above replenishment flow. As soon as possible after completion of the pipeline, and not after the end of the 2006/07 water year, the Minister will issue one or more new licences to the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation for the water savings resulting from the pipeline project. The Corporation will commit these licences as adaptive environmental water. This Plan will be amended to reflect these changes.