New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PHILLIPS CREEK, MOOKI RIVER, QUIRINDI CREEK AND WARRAH CREEK WATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 63

63 Local water utility access licences

(1) All local water utility access licences shall have mandatory conditions to give effect to the following:

(a) water may only be taken for the purposes of supplying water for the exercise of a water supply function of the local water utility or for other such purpose provided for under the Act,

(b) water may only be taken in accordance with a flow class determined by the Minister, if specified on the access licence, at a rate not exceeding that specified for the flow class on the access licence extraction component, and

(c) notwithstanding subclause (b), water may be taken without any restrictions in rate from an in-river dam while that dam is passing inflows specified as a condition on the access licence.

(2) Additional operational conditions for Coepolly Dam (hereafter "the Dam") on Quipolly Creek, operated for the Werris Creek local water utility access licence in the Quirindi Creek Water Source, held by Parry Shire Council, will be applied as follows:

(a) there will be a release from the Dam into Quipolly Creek downstream of the Dam, of a continuous flow of water of not less than 10 litres per second, whenever the inflow to the Dam storage is greater than 10 litres per second, and

(b) in the event that the inflow into the Dam storage is less than 10 litres per second, the release from the Dam will be equivalent to that entering the Dam at the time, unless a lesser release is approved by the Minister.