New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE WYBONG CREEK WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 32

32 Estimate of water requirements

(1) It is estimated that at the time of commencement of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act, the requirements identified for water for extraction under access licences within this water source will total approximately:

(a) 7,942 ML/yr for unregulated river and domestic and stock access licences, and

(b) 267 ML/yr for aquifer access licences.

(2) It is estimated that at the time of commencement of Part 2 of Chapter 3 of the Act, 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) The Minister should declare an embargo on the making of applications for access licences in this water source, other than access licences of the following kinds:

(a) specific purpose access licences for which applications are provided for under the regulations in accordance with section 61 (1) (a) of the Act, or

(b) Unregulated river (Aboriginal cultural) access licences up to 10 ML per application.