Water Sharing Plan for the Darling Alluvial Groundwater Sources 2020 (2020-351) (NSW)

Water Sharing Plan for the Darling Alluvial Groundwater Sources 2020

New South Wales

Water Sharing Plan for the Darling Alluvial Groundwater Sources 2020

under the

Water Management Act 2000

|, Melinda Pavey, the Minister for Water, Property and Housing do, by this Order, in pursuance of section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000, make the following Minister's plan, being the Water Sharing Plan for the Darling Alluvial Groundwater Sources 2020.

Dated this 29th day of June 2020.

MELINDA PAVEY, MP Minister for Water, Property and Housing

Explanatory note

This Plan replaces the following water sharing plans:

(a) the Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2071 in relation to the Lower Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source,

(b) the Water Sharing Plan for the Intersecting Streams Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2071 in relation to the following groundwater sources:

(i) the Paroo Alluvial Groundwater Source, (ii) | the Warrego Alluvial Groundwater Source,

(c) the Water Sharing Plan for the Barwon-Darling Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources 2012 in relation to the Upper Darling Alluvial Groundwater Source.

This Order is made under section 50 of the Water Management Act 2000. The concurrence of the Minister for Energy and Environment was obtained prior to the making of this Plan.

Page 1 Published LW 30 June 2020 (2020 No 351)

Water Sharing Plan for the Darling Alluvial Groundwater Sources 2020

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