New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE HUNTER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2009

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 14 January 2018
- Reg 347 of 2009

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and Status of this Plan
   3.      Date of commencement
   4.      Water sources to which this Plan applies
   5.      Management zones
   6.      Amendment of this Part
   6A.     Extraction management unit for these water sources
   6B.     Understanding the rules of this Plan
   7.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

   8.      Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
   9.      Vision
   9A.     Acknowledgment
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BASIS FOR WATER SHARING

   13.     Basis for water sharing
   14.     Climatic variability
   15.     (Repealed)
   16.     Flow reference points
   17.     Flow classes for these water sources

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS

   18.     Environmental water provisions
   19.     Planned environmental water
   20.     (Repealed)

   PART 5 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS

   21.     Basic landholder rights
   22.     Domestic and stock rights
   23.     Native title rights
   24.     Harvestable rights

   PART 6 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   25.     Bulk access regime

   PART 7 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES

   26.     Requirements for water under access licences
   27.     Share component of domestic and stock access licences
   28.     Share component of local water utility access licences
   29.     Share component of major utility access licences
   30.     Share component of unregulated river access licences
   31.     Share component of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   32.     Share component of aquifer access licences
   33.     Changes to total share components

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES

   34.     Rules for granting access licences
   34A.    Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 9 - RULES FOR GRANTING OR AMENDING WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS

           Division 1 - General

   35.     Granting or amending water supply works approvals
   36.     Runoff harvesting dams and in-river dams
   37.     In-river dams

           Division 2 - Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

   38.     Rules for granting or amending approvals for water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
   39.     Rules for granting water supply works approvals
   40.     Rules for granting water supply works approvals near contamination sources
   40A.    Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
   41.     Rules for granting water supply works approvals near sensitive environmental areas
   41A.    Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   42.     Limits to the availability of water
   43.     Extraction management unit for these water sources
   44.     Long-term average annual extraction limit
   45.     Variation of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   46.     Assessment of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   47.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   48.     Available water determinations
   49.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   50.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   51.     Available water determinations for major utility access licences
   52.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   53.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   54.     Available water determination for aquifer access licences

   PART 11 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - General

   55.     Rules for managing access licences

           Division 2 - Water allocation account management

   56.     Individual access licence account management rules
   57.     Accounting for bulk water transfers to other water utilities

           Division 3 - Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis

   58.     Sharing surface water flows on a daily basis
   59.     Establishment and assignment of total daily extraction limits
   60.     Unassigned TDEL
   61.     Granting of unassigned TDEL
   62.     Individual daily extraction limits for access licences
   63.     Adjustment to TDELS and IDELS
   64.     Administrative arrangements for managing access to daily flows (approved groups)
   65.     Amendments to this Plan for the purposes of sharing of surface water flows on a daily basis
   66.     Williams River Water Source Accreditation Scheme
   67.     Access to the Very Low Flow Class in these water sources

           Division 4 - Management of surface and groundwater connectivity

   68.     Access licences which nominate a water supply work which may be used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources

   PART 12 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   69.     Access licence dealing rules
   70.     Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
   71.     Rules for change of water source
   72.     Rules for conversion of access licence category
   73.     Rules for interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   74.     Rules for water allocation assignments between water sources

   PART 13 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - General

   75.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   76.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   77.     General
   78.     Water supply works used to take water from the alluvial sediments in these water sources
           79-84. (Repealed)

   PART 14 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   85.     Release rules from major utility storages

   PART 15 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   86.     Amendment of this Plan
   87.     Amendment of tidal pool provisions
   88.     Amendment of pool protection provisions
   89.     Amendments due to floodplain harvesting
   90.     Amendments to access rules
   91.     Amendments for alluvial aquifers downstream of the tidal limit
   92.     Amendments for stormwater harvesting
   93.     Amendments in relation to Schedule 2 (Very Low Flow)
   94.     Amendments in relation to the mandatory conditions
   95.     Other amendments to this Plan
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           Schedule 4 (Repealed)
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3