New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE TUROSS RIVER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2016

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 6 January 2017
- Reg 384 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 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
   10.     Acknowledgment
   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 OPERATION RULES

   28.     Releases in the Wandella Creek 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 each of the EMUs

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   34.     General
   35.     Available water determinations made at the commencement of this Plan
   36.     Available water determinations after the first water year of this Plan

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
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   37.     Specific purpose access licences
   38.     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

   39.      Individual access licence account management rules for these water sources

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   40.      General
   41.     Flow classes
   42.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   43.     Access rules for the taking of groundwater
   44.     Total daily extraction limits
   45.     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

   46.     General
   47.     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

   48.     General
   49.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   50.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   51.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent ecosystems
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater-dependent culturally significant sites
   53.     Replacement groundwater works

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

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

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   55.     General
   56.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   57.     Assignment of rights dealings
   58.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   59.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   60.     Interstate transfer of access licences and assignment of water allocation
   61.     Nomination of water supply works dealings

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
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           Division 1 - General

   62.     General

           Division 2 - Access licences
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   63.     General

           Division 3 - Water supply work approvals
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   64.     General
   65.     Water supply works authorised to take water from these alluvial sediments

   PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   66.     General
   67.     Part 1
   68.     Part 7
   69.     Part 8
   70.     Part 9
   71.     Part 10
   72.     Part 12
   73.     Dictionary
   74.     Schedules
   75.     Other
           Dictionary
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3
           APPENDIX 4