New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE TOWAMBA RIVER UNREGULATED AND ALLUVIAL WATER SOURCES 2010

- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 1 October 2011
- Reg 703 of 2010

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
   Note

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

   PART 6 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER

           Division 1 - Long-term average annual extraction limit

   28.     General
   29.     Volume of the long-term average annual extraction limits
   30.     Calculation of current levels of annual extraction
   31.     Assessment of average annual extraction against the long-term average annual extraction limit
   32.     Compliance with the long-term average annual extraction limits

           Division 2 - Available water determinations

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

   PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
   Note

   36.     Specific purpose access licences

   PART 8 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES

           Division 1 - Water allocation account management rules

   37.      General
   38.     Individual access licence account management rules

           Division 2 - Flow classes and daily access rules

   39.      General
   40.     Flow classes
   41.     Access rules for the taking of surface water
   42.     Access rules for the taking of water from these alluvial sediments
   43.     Total daily extraction limits
   44.     Initial assignment of TDELs to categories of access licences
   45.     Individual daily extraction limits

   PART 9 - RULES FOR WATER SUPPLY WORKS APPROVALS
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           Division 1 - Rules applying to water supply works that take surface water

   46.     General
   47.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals

           Division 2 - Rules applying to water supply works that take water in these alluvial sediments

   48.     General
   49.     Granting or amending water supply work approvals
   50.     Rules for amending water supply work approvals for replacement groundwater works
   51.     Rules to minimise interference between water supply works
   52.     Rules for water supply works located near contamination sources
   53.     Rules for water supply works near sensitive environmental areas
   54.     Rules for water supply works near groundwater dependent culturally significant sites
   55.     Rules for the use of water supply works located within restricted distances

   PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES

   56.     General
   57.     Conversion of access licence to new category
   58.     Amendment of share component dealings (change of water source)
   59.     Assignment of water allocation dealings
   60.     Interstate access licence transfer and assignment of water allocation

   PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS

           Division 1 - Access licences
           Note

   61.     General

           Division 2 - Water supply work approvals
           Note

   62.     General
   63.     Water supply works used to take water from these alluvial sediments

   PART 12 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN

   64.     General
   65.     Part 1
   66.     Part 8
   67.     Part 9
   68.     Part 10
   69.     Part 11
   70.     Schedules
   71.     Other
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           APPENDIX 1
           APPENDIX 2
           APPENDIX 3