New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER NAMOI AND LOWER NAMOI REGULATED RIVER WATER SOURCES 2003 - REG 61

61 Water delivery and channel capacity constraints

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

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

(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) the SWMOP targets.

The following capacities have been assessed:

• Pian Creek channel downstream from Gunidgera offtake has a capacity of 2,000 ML/day-80% being 1,600 ML/day, and

• Gunidgera offtake, which regulates flows into Pian Creek has a capacity of 1,250 ML/day.