Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams)

Proclamation 2018

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 (1) of the Dams Safety Act

1978, make the following Proclamation.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 4th day of April 2018.

By His Excellency’s Command,

NIALL BLAIR, MLC

Minister for Regional Water

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2018 [NSW]

Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation 2018

under the

Dams Safety Act 1978

1      Name of Proclamation

This Proclamation is the Dams Safety Amendment (Prescribed Dams) Proclamation
2018.

2      Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Dams Safety Act 1978 No 96

(1) Schedule 1 Prescribed dams

Insert the following in appropriate order:

Bulga Northern Tailings Dam A	Bulga
Carrington In-pit Tailings Storage Facility	Hunter Valley
Cowal Integrated Waste Landform	Lake Cowal
Eurobodalla Southern Storage	Bodalla
Hunter Valley North Pit Tailings	Hunter Valley
Knight Park	Yennora
Prospect—Western Basin	Lorne Street, Prospect
Ruby Road, Rutherford Detention Basin	Rutherford
Tarrawonga Clean Water Dam	Boggabri
The Gables Lake and Basin	Box Hill
West Epping Park Basin	West Epping
Wyoming Central Dam	Tomingley

(2)

Schedule 1

Omit the following:

Galambine Dam	Near Mudgee
Redbank Dam 15	North Richmond
Wambo Chitter Dump Water	Near Wollombi Brook, Singleton
Wollongong High School Detention Basin	Fairy Creek, Wollongong

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.