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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE PEEL VALLEY REGULATED, UNREGULATED, ALLUVIUM AND FRACTURED ROCK WATER SOURCES 2010 

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 October 2020
- Reg 134 of 2010

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Name of this Plan
   2.      Nature and status of this Plan
   3.      Term 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
   Note

   9.      Vision statement
   10.     Objectives
   11.     Strategies
   12.     Performance indicators

   PART 3 - BULK ACCESS REGIME

   13.     Bulk access regime
   14.     Climatic variability

   PART 4 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - Planned environmental water

   15.     General
   16.     Commitment and identification of planned environmental water
   17.     Establishment and maintenance of planned environmental water

           Division 2 - Adaptive environmental water

   18.     Adaptive environmental water provisions

   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 aquifer (general security) 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 from Chaffey Dam
   32.     Inter-valley share component trade account rules
   33.     Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
   34.     Rates of change to storage releases
   35.     Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
   36.     Dam operation during floods and spills
   37.     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

   38.     General
   39.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limit
   40.     Calculation of the long term average annual extraction limit and current levels of annual extraction
   41.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long term average annual extraction limit
   42.     Compliance with the long term average annual extraction limit in the Peel Regulated River Water Source
   43.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit in the Peel Unregulated River Water Sources
   44.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit in the Peel Fractured Rock Water Source
   45.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limit in the Peel Alluvium Water Source

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

   46.     General
   47.     Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
   48.     Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
   49.     Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
   50.     Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
   51.     Available water determinations for unregulated river access licences
   52.     Available water determinations for aquifer access licences
   53.     Available water determinations for aquifer (general security) access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   54.     Specific purpose access licences

   PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   55.      General
   56.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Peel Unregulated River Water Sources
   57.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Peel Regulated River Water Source
   58.     Individual access licence account management rules for the Peel Alluvium and Peel Fractured Rock Water Sources

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

   59.     General
   60.     General priority of extractions
   61.     Numerical specification of extraction components
   61A.    Volume of water taken under an access licence in the Peel Regulated River Water Source
   62.     Taking of uncontrolled flows, stimulus flow and ECA releases under regulated river (general security) access licences

           Division 3 - Rules for access licences in the Peel Unregulated River Water Sources

   63.     General
   64.     Flow classes
   65.     Access rules
   66.     Total daily extraction limits
   67.     Individual daily extraction limits

           Division 4 - Rules for access licences in the Peel Alluvium Water Source

   68.     General
   69.     Works in the Peel Alluvium Water Source

   PART 10 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORK APPROVALS
   Note

           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works in the Peel Unregulated River Water Sources

   70.     General
   71.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals
   72.     Rules for the use of a water supply work to take water

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works in the Peel Alluvium and Peel Fractured Rock Water Sources

   73.     General
   74.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   75.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works in the Peel Alluvium Water Source
   76.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works in the Peel Fractured Rock Water Source
   77.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   78.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas in the Peel Alluvium Water Source
   79.     Rules for water supply works located near sensitive environmental areas in the Peel Fractured Rock Water Source
   80.     Rules for water supply works located near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   81.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 11 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   82.     General
   83.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   84.     Assignment of rights dealings (within water sources)
   85.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   86.     Assignment of water allocations dealings
   87.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation
   88.     Nomination of water supply work dealings

   PART 12 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
   Note

           Division 1 - Access licences

   89.     General

           Division 2 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   90.     General
   91.     Water supply work approvals in the Peel Alluvium and Peel Fractured Rock Water Sources

   PART 13 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   92.     General
   93.     Part 1
   94.     Part 9
   95.     Part 10
   96.     Part 11
   97.     Part 12
   98.     Schedules
   99.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2

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