Floodplain Management Plan for the Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain 2019 (2019-234) (NSW)

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New South Wales

Floodplain Management Plan for the Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain 2019

under the

Water Management Act 2000

|, Melinda Jane Pavey, the Minister for Water, Property and Housing in pursuance of section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000, do, by this Order, make the following Minister's Plan for the Upper Namoi Valley Floodplain.

Dated this 6th day of June 2019.

MELINDA JANE PAVEY MP Minister for Water, Property and Housing

Explanatory note This Order is made under section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000. The object of this Order is to make the Floodplain Management Plan for the Upper Namoi Valley

Floodplain 2019. The concurrence of the Minister for the Environment was obtained prior to the making of this Order.

Published LW 7 June 2019 (2019 No 234)

Contents

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Part 5

Part 6 Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

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Risks from flooding