Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2017 (NSW)

New South Wales

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams)

Proclamation 2017

under the

Dams Safety Act 1978

DAVID HURLEY, Governor

I, General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d), Governor of New South Wales, with
the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 27 of the Dams Safety Act 1978,

make the following Proclamation.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 21st day of June 2017.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NIALL BLAIR, MLC
Minister for Regional Water

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2017

under the

Dams Safety Act 1978

1      Name of Proclamation

This Proclamation is the Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation
2017.

2      Commencement

This Proclamation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Dams Safety Act 1978 No 96

[1]      Schedule 1 Prescribed dams

Insert the following in appropriate order:

Adelong Tailings	Adelong
Bingara Gorge Pond 1	Bingara Gorge, Wilton
Blackwood Pit Tailings Storage Facility	Broken Hill
Connors Creek Dam	Connors Creek, Barraba
Corindi Stage 3 Dam	Kathleen Drive, Corindi
Diamond Circuit Detention Basin	Rutherford
Dobinson Retarding Basin	Wollongong
Emerson Street Detention Basin	Emerson Street Reserve, Wetherill Park
Kensington Centennial Park Pond	Centennial Park, Sydney
Korrumbyn Creek	Korrumbyn Creek, Murwillumbah
Mount Pleasant Environmental Dam 3	Muswellbrook
Mount Pleasant Mine Water Dam	Muswellbrook
Mount Pleasant Tailings	Muswellbrook
Northparkes Infill Tailings Storage Facility	Goonumbla
Nyngan Evaporation Pond	Nyngan
Nyngan Tailings Storage Facility	Nyngan
Parnells Creek Mine Water Dam	Parnells Creek, Jerrys Plains
Redbank Dam 13	North Richmond
Redbank Dam 15	North Richmond
Sarah Fahey Park Retarding Basin	Copacabana
Schofields North Rail Facility	First Ponds Creek, Schofields
Schofields South Rail Facility	First Ponds Creek, Schofields
St Peters Basin—9SWB01	St Peters
Warkworth Main Water Dam—1N	Mt Thorley (near Singleton)
Woodlawn Tailings Storage Facility 4	Off-stream near Tarago

[2]      Schedule 1

Omit the matter relating to the following dams:

Dapto Heights Retarding Basin
Jerrara Creek
Ravensworth Void 3 Tailings Dam
Snapper Startup Water
Warkworth Mine Tailings

[3]      Schedule 1

Omit the matter relating to North Parkes Tailings and North Parkes Tailings Dam No 2.
Insert in appropriate order:

Northparkes Tailings	Cookopie Creek near Parkes
Northparkes Tailings Dam No 2	Cookopie Creek near Parkes

Explanatory note

The objects of this Proclamation are:

(a) to add the names and locations of certain dams to the list of prescribed dams in Schedule 1 to the

Dams Safety Act 1978 to enable the Dams Safety Committee to exercise certain functions in relation to the dams (including issuing notices requiring things to be done to ensure the safety of the dams), and

(b)	to omit the names and locations of certain other dams from the list of prescribed dams, so as to remove the prescribed status of those dams, and
(c)	to alter the names of 2 dams and their locations in the list of prescribed dams.