New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE RICHMOND RIVER AREA UNREGULATED, REGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2010

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 702 of 2010

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
   18.     (Repealed)

   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 aquifer access licences
   27.     Share components of unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   28.     Share components of regulated river (high security) access licences
   29.     Share components of regulated river (general security) access licences

   PART 6 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES

   30.     General
   31.     Environmental release rules for Toonumbar Dam
   32.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   33.     Rates of change to storage releases
   34.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   35.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   36.     Supply for domestic and stock and native title rights

   PART 7 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   37.     General
   38.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   39.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   40.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   41.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   42.     General
   43.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   44.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   45.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   46.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   47.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   48.     Available water determinations for unregulated river (high flow) access licences
   49.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   Note

   50.     Specific purpose access licences
   50A.    Granting of access licences as a result of controlled allocation

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   51.      General
   52.     Individual access licence account management rules for these water sources excluding the Richmond Regulated Water Source
   53.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Richmond Regulated Water Source

           Division 2 - Rules for access licences in the Richmond Regulated Water Source

   54.     General
   55.     General priority of extractions
   56.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   57.     Taking of uncontrolled flows under access licences in the Richmond Regulated Water Source

           Division 3 - Rules for access licences in these water sources, excluding the Richmond Regulated Water Source and the Richmond Regulated Alluvial Water Source

   58.     General
   59.     Flow classes
   60.     Access rules for the taking of surface water from these water sources, excluding the Richmond Regulated Water Source and the Coopers Creek Water Source
   60A.    Access rules for the taking of surface water from the Coopers Creek Water Source
   61.     Access rules for the taking of water from these alluvial sediments and the Coopers Creek Alluvial Groundwater Source, excluding access licences in the Richmond Regulated Alluvial Water Source
   62.     Total daily extraction limits
   63.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works that take surface water

   64.     General
   65.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water from these alluvial sediments, the Richmond Regulated Alluvial Water Source and the Coopers Creek Alluvial Groundwater Source

   66.     General
   67.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   68.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   69.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   70.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas
   71.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   72.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   73.     General
   74.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   75.     Assignment of rights dealings
   76.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   77.     Amendment of extraction component dealings
   78.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   79.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   80.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   80A.    General

           Division 2 - Access licences
           Note

   81.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   82.     General
   83.     Water supply works used to take water from these alluvial sediments, the Richmond Regulated Alluvial Water Source and the Coopers Creek Alluvial Groundwater Source

   PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   84.     General
   85.     Part 1
   86.     Part 6
   86A.    Part 7
   87.     Part 8
   88.     Part 9
   89.     Part 10
   90.     Part 11
   91.     Part 12
   92.     Schedules
   93.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 1A
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 3A
           SCHEDULE 3B
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4