New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE ROCKY CREEK, COBBADAH, UPPER HORTON AND LOWER HORTON WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 31

31 Estimate of water requirements

(1) It is estimated that at the time of commencement of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act in the area in respect of which this Plan is made, the requirements identified for water for extraction under access licences within this water source will total approximately 5,509 megalitres per year (hereafter "ML/yr"), distributed as follows:

(a) 284 ML/yr in the Rocky Creek management zone,

(b) 332 ML/yr in the Cobbadah management zone,

(c) 1,309 ML/yr in the Upper Horton management zone, and

(d) 3,584 ML/yr in the Lower Horton management zone.

(2) It is estimated that at the time of commencement of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act in the area in respect of which this Plan is made, there will be several runoff harvesting access licences in this water source, that will have their access licence share component expressed as the water that can be extracted from time to time from the approved works.

(3) This Plan recognises that the total requirements for water for extraction within this water source may change during the term of this Plan as a result of:

(a) the granting, surrender, cancellation or non-renewal of access licences, or

(b) variations to local water utility licences arising from sections 66 (3) or 66 (4) of the Act.