New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE WYBONG CREEK WATER SOURCE 2003 - REG 56

56 Water quality management

(1) The beneficial uses of the aquifer in this water source are raw water for drinking, and ecosystem protection, based on beneficial use classes identified in the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council Water Quality Guidelines 2000 , and the National Health and Medical Research Council Raw Water for Drinking Purposes Guidelines 1996 .

(2) Water quality decline will be deemed unacceptable if extraction is likely to cause water quality to decline to a lower beneficial use class.

Note: It is not recommended that the water from the aquifer in this water source be consumed directly without prior treatment. Land use activities may have polluted the groundwater in some areas.

(3) The Minister may declare that, in order to protect water quality within the aquifer of this water source, local access rules are to apply in a defined area known as a local impact area.

(4) If unacceptable water quality declines are resulting from extraction, extraction from all water supply works (bores) within a local impact area declared under subclause (3) from which access is authorised by an aquifer access licence will be restricted to such an extent and for such time as required to halt that decline, or restore the beneficial use of the aquifer in this water source.