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WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE UPPER NAMOI AND LOWER NAMOI REGULATED
RIVER WATER SOURCES 2016
- Made under the Water Management Act 2000
- As at 27 June 2018
- Reg 631 of 2015
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1 - INTRODUCTION
1. Name of Plan
2. Nature and status of this Plan
3. Date of commencement
4. Water sources and waters to which this Plan applies
5. Interpretation
6. Effect on licences, authorities and permits under the Water Act 1912
PART 2 - VISION, OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
7. Vision, objectives, strategies and performance indicators
8. Vision
9. Objectives
10. Strategies
11. Performance indicators
PART 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL WATER PROVISIONS
12. Environmental water provisions
13. Planned environmental water
14. Planned environmental water
15. Adaptive environmental water
PART 4 - BASIC LANDHOLDER RIGHTS
16. Basic landholder rights
17. Domestic and stock rights
18. Native title rights
PART 5 - BULK ACCESS REGIME
19. Bulk access regime
PART 6 - REQUIREMENTS FOR WATER UNDER ACCESS LICENCES
20. Requirements for water under access licences
21. Share component of domestic and stock access licences
22. Share component of local water utility access licences
23. Share component of regulated river (high security) access licences
24. Share component of regulated river (general security) access licences
25. Share component of supplementary water access licences
26. Changes to total share component
PART 7 - RULES FOR GRANTING ACCESS LICENCES
27. Rules for granting access licences
PART 8 - LIMITS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF WATER
Division 1 - Long-term extraction limit
28. Limits to the availability of water
29. Volume of the long-term extraction limit
30. Assessment of the long-term extraction limit, the current long-term average annual extraction from these water sources and growth in water use by Tamworth City Council
31. Maintaining compliance with the long-term extraction limit
32. Limit to the volumes that may be taken under or assigned from regulated river (general security) access licences in the Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Source
Division 2 - Available water determinations
33. Available water determinations
34. Available water determinations for domestic and stock access licences
35. Available water determinations for local water utility access licences
36. Available water determinations for regulated river (high security) access licences
37. Available water determinations for regulated river (general security) access licences
38. Available water determinations for supplementary water access licences
PART 9 - RULES FOR MANAGING ACCESS LICENCES
Division 1 - General
39. Rules for managing access licences
Division 2 - Water allocation account management
40. Water allocation accounts
41. Accrual of water allocations
42. Volume taken under access licences
43. Accounting of assigned water allocations and return flows
44. Carrying over of water allocation credits and water allocation account limits
Division 3 - Extraction conditions
45. General priority of extractions
46. Numerical specification of extraction components
47. Extraction of water in the Upper Namoi Regulated River Water Source under clause 37 (8) provisions
48. Taking of water under supplementary water licences in the Lower Namoi Regulated River Water Source
PART 10 - ACCESS LICENCE DEALING RULES
49. Access licence dealing rules
50. Rules relating to constraints within these water sources
51. Rules for change of water source
52. Rules for conversion of access licence category
53. Rules for interstate access licence transfer
54. Rules for water allocation assignment between water sources
55. Rules for interstate assignment of water allocations
PART 11 - MANDATORY CONDITIONS
56. Mandatory conditions on access licences
57. Mandatory conditions on water supply works approvals
PART 12 - SYSTEM OPERATION RULES
58. System operation rules
59. Replenishment flows
60. Water delivery and channel capacity constraints
61. Rates of change to releases from water storages
62. Bulk transfer rules between storages
63. Supply of orders when remaining allocations are low
64. Dam operation during floods and spills
PART 13 - MONITORING AND REPORTING
65. Monitoring
PART 14 - AMENDMENT OF THIS PLAN
66. Changes to these water sources
67. Other amendments of this Plan
68. Amendment relating to planned environmental water
69. Amendment of Plan relating to floodplain harvesting
70. Amendment relating to the taking of water under supplementary water licences
SCHEDULE 1
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2
APPENDIX 3
APPENDIX 4
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