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SW15 Gwydir Water Resource Plan Moree 1 Nov 2018
Water Resource Plans
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Introduction & Acknowledgement of Country
1. Water Resource Plans
2. NSW context
3. WSP vs WRP
4. What’s in a WRP?
5. Process
6. Navigating a WRP
7. Public exhibition: Gwydir Surface Water WRP
Agenda
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Water Resource Plans
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Outline how water resources will be shared and managed to be consistent with the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (MDBP) Sets out the requirements for annual limits on water take, environmental water, managing water during extreme events
Provides strategies to achieve water quality standards and manage risks
NSW Context
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20 Water Resource Plans in NSW
Covers groundwater and/or surface water in a defined area
Plans vary depending on the number of water sources and environmental assets
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NSW Context
Water Sharing Plans v’s Water Resource Plans
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Water sharing plans remain the legal instrument for managing water resources in NSW
These have the rules that manage consumptive and environmental water. They include:
o Compliance with the long term average annual extraction limit (LTAAEL)
o Planned environmental water rules o Rules around taking water o Trade rules
Water resource plans are there to implement the Basin Plan
What’s in a Water Resource Plan?
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WRP
Compliance with the sustainable diversion limit
Protection of water for the environment
Water quality and salinity objectives
Aboriginal values and uses
Measuring and monitoring
Arrangements for extreme events
Process
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DEVELOP CONSULT APPROVE, ASSESS & ACCREDIT
IMPLEMENT
Status & Issues
paper
Strategy & rule
development
Draft WRP
Public exhibition
WRP
Ministerial approval
Final WRP
Commonwealth Minister
accreditation
WRP commences
MDBA assessment
Water Resource Plan Navigation
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Water Resource Plan - sections
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Introduction Identification of WRP area, SDL resource
units and more
Risks to water
sources
Environmental water, cultural
flows and sustainable
management
Water quality management
Take for consumptive
use
Measuring and monitoring
Information used to
prepare the WRP
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Navigating a Water Resource Plan
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Example page from a WRP
Gwydir Surface Water WRP area
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Gwydir WRP area
Consultation on the Plan
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Status and issues paper Oct 2016
Gwydir Stakeholder Advisory Panel 9 meetings
First Nations consultation Gomeroi (complete)
Public exhibition 18 October – 29 November 2018
Proposed changes
Incorporation of floodplain harvesting access licences and rules etc.
Template updated to improve readability, consistency and alignment with policy positions
Objectives strategies and performance indicators revised
Establish a second extraction limit, which is the sustainable diversion limit specified in the Basin Plan 2012, and to incorporate an associated assessment and compliance framework for this limit
Gwydir Regulated WSP
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Proposed Changes Gwydir Regulated WSP
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Reference to Interim Flow Management Plan for the North West removed. The rules and threshold retained.
Addition of a ‘very wet conditions’ threshold for environmental flows to the extreme wet provisions
Standardising provisions regarding environmental water advisory groups (EWAG) and compliance assessment advisory committees (CAAC)
Proposed changes
Ability to direct excess supplementary flows for the environment’s share of the events to specific environmental assets Environmental Contingency Allowance crediting wording to align with original intent Formalising historic practice regarding Mongyer Lagoon to ensure operational practice continues.
Gwydir Regulated WSP
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Proposed changes
Unregulated WSP template to removal of alluvium, improve consistency and alignment with policy positions
Incorporation of floodplain harvesting access licences and rules etc.
Objectives strategies and performance indicators revised
Establish a second extraction limit, which is the sustainable diversion limit specified in the Basin Plan 2012, and to incorporate an associated assessment and compliance framework for this limit
Gwydir Unregulated WSP
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Have Your Say Public exhibition period The Gwydir Surface Water Resource Plan will be on public exhibition from 18 October – 29 November 2018. More information For more information or to make an online submission on the draft water resource plan, visit: www.industry.nsw.gov.au/water-resource-plan-consultation Have Your Say www.nsw.gov.au/improving-nsw/have-your-say Contact us by email gwydir.sw.wrp@dpi.nsw.gov.au
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Questions
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Thank you
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