Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources Amendment Order 2012 (NSW)

2012 No 635

WATER MANAGEMENT ACT 2000

Order under section 45 (1) (a)

Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources Amendment Order 2012

Pursuant to section 45 (1) (a) of the Water Management Act 2000, I, KATRINA HODGKINSON, MP, Minister for Primary Industries, having obtained the concurrence of the Minister for the Environment, being satisfied it is in the public interest to do so, make the following Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources Amendment Order 2012.

Dated this 20th day of November, 2012.

KATRINA HODGKINSON, MP Minister for Primary Industries

Explanatory note

Section 45 (1) (a) of the Water Management Act 2000 provides that the Minister may, at any time, by order published on the NSW legislation website, amend a management plan if satisfied it is in the public interest to do so. The purpose of this Order is to amend the Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2012.

Published LW 21 December 2012

2012 No 635

Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources Amendment

Order 2012

under the
Water Management Act 2000

1.    Name of Order

This Order is Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources Amendment Order 2012.
2.	Commencement This Order commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3.    Amendment

The Water Sharing Plan for the Gwydir Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2012 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

2012 No 635

Schedule 1 Amendments

[1]     42 Flow class

Omit subclause (6). Insert instead:

(6) For the purpose of Table B, Year 1 of this Plan means from the date of commencement of this
Plan.

Note. Only those water sources for which flow classes have been established at the commencement of this Plan are shown in Table B.

Table B — Flow Classes

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7
Water source	Management	Flow class	Commencement	Flow (ML/	Flow reference	Day on which

zone day) point flow class applies

Less than or

Upper Gingham Very Low Flow Gingham

Year 1 of this Plan equal to 250 Same day

Watercourse Class ML/day channel at

Management More than 250 Tillaloo bridge

Zone A Class Year 1 of this Plan ML/day gauge (418076) Same day

Less than or equal to the minimal flow depth of 1.0 metre on the

Gingham

Bridge gauge

Very Low Flow (418079) or less

Year 1 of this Plan Same day

Class than or equal to 4000 ML/year at the Gingham Bridge gauge or

Gingham	no visible flow	Gingham
Watercourse	at the Gingham	channel at

Water Source Lower Gingham Watercourse at Gingham

Watercourse	Morialta Road.	Bridge gauge
Management	More than the	(418079) and

Zone minimal flow Gingham

depth of 1.0	Watercourse at
metre on the	Morialta Road
Gingham
Bridge gauge and more than

A Class	Year 1 of this Plan	4000 ML/year	Same day
at the Gingham Bridge gauge and a visible flow at the Gingham
Watercourse at Morialta Road.

Halls Creek Water Halls Creek Very Low Flow Halls Creek at

Year 1 of this Plan No visible flow Same day

Source Management Class Bingara gauge

2012 No 635

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7
Water source	Management	Flow class	Commencement	Flow (ML/	Flow reference	Day on which

zone day) point flow class applies

Zone (418025) in the

South East

A Class	Year 1 of this Plan	Visible flow	Corner of TSR	Same day
29609, Parish of

Bingara

Very Low Flow Less than or

Year 1 of this Plan equal to 250 Gwydir River at Same day

Gwydir Water Class ML/day Millewa gauge

Source (418066)

More than 250

A Class Year 1 of this Plan ML/day Same day

Note.

1            For Gingham Channel at Tillaloo Bridge gauge (418076), 250 ML/day corresponds to the estimated 10th percentile flow.

2            For Gingham Channel at Gingham Bridge gauge (418079):

• 1 metre on the gauge corresponds to the estimated 21st percentile flow, and

• 4000 ML/year corresponds to the estimated 2nd percentile flow.

3            For Halls Creek at Bingara gauge (418025), no visible flow corresponds to a gauge height of 0.1m.

For Gwydir River at Millewa gauge (418066) 250 ML/day corresponds to the estimated 9th percentile flow.

4