Water Management (General) Regulation 2025

Storage metering equipment must be installed to determine variation in the water level of water stored in the approved work.

Storage metering equipment for the approved work must—

meet the relevant specifications set out in the storage metering equipment standards, and

be installed and validated by a duly qualified person in accordance with the storage metering equipment standards.

Storage metering equipment must be calibrated by a duly qualified person—

in accordance with the storage metering equipment standards, and

by reference to the survey benchmarks.

The survey benchmarks must be installed, in relation to the approved work, by a duly qualified person in accordance with a survey benchmark standard.

The location of the survey benchmarks must be certified by a duly qualified person in accordance with the survey benchmark standard.

Storage metering equipment must have—

data logging capacity to enable the equipment to collect, record and store water storage data in accordance with data logging and telemetry specifications approved by the Minister under Schedule 5, section 10, and

telemetry capacity to transmit data relating to water usage that complies with the approved data logging and telemetry specifications approved by the Minister under Schedule 5, section 10, and

tamper evident seals, locks, controls or other devices that comply with the requirements of Schedule 5, section 5.

The approval holder must ensure storage metering equipment is maintained in accordance with the storage metering equipment standards.