Water Resource (Whitsunday) Plan 2010 (Qld)

Water Resource (Whitsunday) Plan 2010

Chapter 1 Preliminary

1 Short title This water resource plan may be cited as the Water Resource (Whitsunday) Plan 2010.

2 Purposes of plan The following are the purposes of this plan— (a) to define the availability of water in the plan area; (b) to provide a framework for sustainably managing water and the taking of water; (c) to identify priorities and mechanisms for dealing with future water requirements; (d) to provide a framework for establishing water allocations to take surface water; (e) to provide a framework for reversing, where practicable, degradation that has occurred in natural ecosystems; (f) to regulate the taking of overland flow water; (g) to regulate the taking of groundwater.

3 Definitions The dictionary in schedule 8 defines particular words used in this plan.

Chapter 2 Plan area and water to which plan applies

4 Plan area This plan applies to the area shown as the plan area on the map in schedule 1.

5 Subcatchment areas Each part of the plan area that is within a subcatchment area shown on the map in schedule 2 is a subcatchment area for this plan.

6 Declaration about watercourse— Act , s 1006 (2) (1) Groundwater in an aquifer under the relevant watercourse or under land adjacent to the relevant watercourse is declared to be water in a watercourse. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to water that is not hydraulically connected to water in the relevant watercourse. (3) The owner of land adjacent to the relevant watercourse may take the groundwater for stock or domestic purposes. (4) In this section— land adjacent, to the relevant watercourse, means land within 200m either side of the relevant watercourse. under, a relevant watercourse or land adjacent to the relevant watercourse, means under the watercourse or land to an unspecified depth. relevant watercourse means the Proserpine River AMTD 25.7km to 57.0km.