New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PATERSON REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCE 2007 - REG 56

56 Water delivery and channel capacity constraints

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

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

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

(c) the transmission losses expected to occur,

(d) capacities of water management structures controlled by the Minister, and

(e) SWMOP targets.

Note: Operation of the system at the commencement of this Plan has the following constraint on maximum flows from Lostock Dam of 720 ML/day.