WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 379
Content of spring impact management strategy
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 379
Content of spring impact management strategy
379 Content of spring impact management strategy
(1) A responsible entity’s spring impact management strategy must include
each of the following for each spring of interest in the area to which the
entity’s underground water impact report or final report relates—
(a) the
details of the spring, including its location;
(b) an assessment of the
connectivity between the spring and the aquifer over which the spring is
located;
(c) the predicted risk to, and likely impact on, the ecosystem and
cultural and spiritual values of the spring because of a decline in water
level of the aquifer over which the spring is located;
(d) a strategy,
including the actions to be taken, for preventing or mitigating the predicted
impacts on the spring or, if a strategy for preventing or mitigating the
predicted impacts on the spring under paragraph (c) is not included, the
reason for not including the strategy;
(e) a timetable for implementing the
strategy;
(f) a program for reporting to the office about the implementation
of the strategy.
(2) If the strategy is prepared for a final report, the
strategy must also include a statement about any matters under a previous
strategy that have not yet been complied with.
(3) In this section—
"cultural and spiritual values" , of a spring, means its aesthetic,
historical, scientific, social or other significance to the present generation
or past or future generations.
"spring of interest" means a spring overlying an aquifer affected by
underground water rights, if—
(a) the water level in the aquifer is
predicted, in an underground water impact report or final report, to decline
by more than the spring trigger threshold at the location of the spring at any
time; and
(b) the cause of the predicted decline is, or is likely to be, the
exercise of the underground water rights.
"spring trigger threshold" , for an aquifer, means a decline in the water
level of the aquifer that is—
(a) if a regulation prescribes the threshold
for a particular area—the prescribed threshold for the area; or
