New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PHILLIPS CREEK, MOOKI RIVER, QUIRINDI CREEK AND WARRAH CREEK WATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 11

11 Objectives

The objectives of this Plan are to:

(a) implement the River Flow Objectives listed in Appendix 4, to protect, preserve, maintain or enhance the important river flow dependent environmental features, and cultural and Aboriginal heritage values of the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources, and to provide water for downstream subcatchments,

(b) manage in-river water resources of the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources to ensure equitable sharing of water between all uses and users, including basic rights, and to minimise any adverse socio-economic impacts in regard to communities and individuals in these water sources,

(c) protect the water resources of the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources by ensuring that extraction minimises any adverse environmental impacts,

(d) ensure water extraction from the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creeks Water Sources is managed within Murray Darling Basin Cap for the Namoi Water Management Area,

(e) provide rules for market based trading of access licence share components and individual daily extraction limits in the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources, and

(f) contribute to the achievement of water quality to support the environmental values of the Phillips Creek, Mooki River, Quirindi Creek and Warrah Creek Water Sources.

Note: Objective (f) refers to protecting and improving water quality. Although there are no specific strategies directly relating to this objective in this Plan, the environmental water provisions in this Plan should make a positive contribution to maintaining water quality.