New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE MACLEAY UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 6 January 2017
- Reg 385 of 2016

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
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   1.      Name of Plan
   2.      Nature and status of Plan
   3.      Commencement
   4.      Application of Plan
   5.      Management zones
   6.      Extraction management unit for 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
   10.     Acknowledgement
   11.     Objectives
   12.     Strategies
   13.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   14.     Bulk access regime
   15.     Climatic variability

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

   PART 5 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER

           Division 1 - General

   19.     Application

           Division 2 - Requirements for water for basic landholder rights

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

           Division 3 - Requirements for water for extraction under access licences

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

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATIONS RULES
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   28.     Releases in the Malpas Dam Water Source

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
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           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limits

   29.     General
   30.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   31.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   32.     Assessment of average annual extractions against long-term average annual extraction limits
   33.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the EMU
   34.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit for the Coastal Macleay Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   35.     General
   36.     Available water determinations for these connected water sources, excluding the Apsley River Water Source, the Commissioners Waters Water Source and the Toorumbee Creek Water Source, made at the commencement of this Plan
   37.     Available water determinations for these connected water sources, excluding the Apsley River Water Source, the Commissioners Waters Water Source and the Toorumbee Creek Water Source, after the first water year of this Plan
   38.     Available water determinations for the Apsley River Water Source, the Commissioners Waters Water Source and the Toorumbee Creek Water Source
   39.     Available water determinations for the Coastal Macleay Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 8 - 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 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
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           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   42.      Individual access licence account management rules for these connected water sources, excluding the Apsley River Water Source, the Commissioners Waters Water Source and the Toorumbee Creek Water Source
   43.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Apsley River Water Source, the Commissioners Waters Water Source and the Toorumbee Creek Water Source
   44.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Coastal Macleay Floodplain Alluvial Groundwater Source

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   45.      General
   46.     Flow classes
   47.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   48.     Access rules for the taking of groundwater in the Macleay Valley Water Source
   49.     Total daily extraction limits
   50.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take surface water

   51.     General
   52.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to the granting or amending of water supply work approvals for water supply works that take groundwater

   53.     General
   54.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   55.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   56.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent ecosystems
   57.     Rules for water supply works located near potential acid sulfate soils
   58.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
   59.     Replacement groundwater works

           Division 3 - Rules for the use of water supply works used to take groundwater

   60.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   61.     General
   62.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   63.     Assignments of rights dealings
   64.     Amendment of share components dealings (change of water source)
   65.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   66.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   67.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   68.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   69.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   70.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   71.     General
   72.     Water supply works authorised to take water from groundwater

   PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   73.     General
   74.     Part 1
   75.     Part 4
   76.     Part 6
   77.     Part 7
   78.     Part 9
   79.     Part 10
   80.     Part 12
   81.     Dictionary
   82.     Schedules
   83.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4