New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE CASTLEREAGH RIVER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2011

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 2 October 2020
- Reg 489 of 2011

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Commencement of this Plan
   4.      Application of this Plan
   5.      Management zones
   6.      Extraction management units in these water sources
   7.      Understanding the rules in this Plan
   8.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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   9.      Vision statement
   9A.     Acknowledgement
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - PLANNED ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
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   15.     General
   16.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   17.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   18.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

   19.     Domestic and stock rights
   20.     Native title rights
   21.     Harvestable rights

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

   22.     Share components of domestic and stock access licences
   23.     Share components of local water utility access licences
   24.     Share components of unregulated river access licences
   25.     Share components of aquifer access licences
   26.     Share components of unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   27.     General
   28.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   29.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   30.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Castlereagh Valley Extraction Management Unit
   31.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Castlereagh Alluvial Groundwater Source
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Castlereagh Valley Extraction Management Unit
   33.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Castlereagh Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     General
   35.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   36.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   37.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   38.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (special additional high flow) access licences
   39.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   40.     Specific purpose access licences
   41.     Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   42.      General
   43.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Castlereagh River Unregulated Water Sources
   44.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Castlereagh Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Rules for access licences

   45.     General
   46.     Access rules for the taking of surface water from these water sources, excluding the Castlereagh River above Binnaway Water Source
   46A.    Flow classes for the Castlereagh River above Binnaway Water Source
   46B.    Access rules for the taking of surface water from the Castlereagh River above Binnaway Water Source
   47.     Total daily extraction limits
   48.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works that take surface water

   49.     General
   50.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from the Castlereagh Alluvial Groundwater Source

   51.     General
   52.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   53.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   54.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   55.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   56.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   57.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   58.     General
   59.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   60.     Assignment of rights dealings
   61.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   62.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   63.     Assignment of water allocation dealings
   64.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   65.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   66.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   67.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   68.     General
   69.     Water supply works used to take water from the Castlereagh Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   70.     General
   71.     Part 1
   72.     Part 4
   73.     Part 6
   74.     Part 8
   75.     Part 9
   76.     Part 11
   77.     Schedules
   78.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 1A
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 2A
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3