Metering equipment installed after 14 February 2020 and before 1 July 2022
3 Metering equipment installed after 14 February 2020 and before 1 July 2022
This section applies to an approval holder who installed primary metering equipment—
in accordance with the requirements set out in the equipment guideline after 14 February 2020 but before 1 July 2022, and
for the purpose of measuring water taken or collected under a licence on a water supply work nominated in—
a floodplain harvesting (regulated river) access licence, or
a floodplain harvesting (unregulated river) access licence, or
an unregulated river access licence if the water taken is overland flow water taken from a declared floodplain.
The approval holder is taken to have installed the equipment in accordance with the mandatory floodplain harvesting condition if the following conditions are met—
for point-of-intake metering equipment—a duly qualified person who is qualified to determine if all water is able to be measured by point-of-intake metering equipment certifies in writing that—
the equipment complies with the point-of-intake metering equipment guideline, and
the person installed and validated the equipment in accordance with the requirements set out in the point-of-intake metering equipment guideline,
for storage metering equipment—a duly qualified person who is qualified to install or repair a storage meter certifies in writing that—
the equipment complies with the storage metering equipment guideline, and
the person installed and validated the equipment in accordance with the requirements set out in the storage metering equipment guideline.
For the avoidance of doubt, a storage curve in relation to storage metering equipment subject to this section is not required to be adopted until 1 July 2022.
Note—
The Water Management (General) Amendment Regulation (No 2) 2022 commenced on 1 July 2022.
In this section—
equipment guideline means the point-of-intake metering equipment guideline or the storage metering equipment guideline.
point-of-intake metering equipment guideline means the document titled Floodplain Harvesting Measurement—Point-of-intake measurement method published by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment in February 2021.
storage metering equipment guideline means the document titled Floodplain Harvesting Measurement—Existing storage metering equipment published by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment in February 2021.
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