Water Plan (Gold Coast) 2006

section 3

1.5 year daily flow volume means the daily flow that has a 67% probability of being reached at least once a year.

5 year daily flow volume means the daily flow that has a 20% probability of being reached at least once a year.

20 year daily flow volume means the daily flow that has a 5% probability of being reached at least once a year.

50% daily flow, for a month, means the flow, in megalitres, that is equalled or exceeded on 50% of days in the month in the simulation period.

70% unsupplemented water sharing index, for a group of authorisations, means the average total volume of water simulated to have been taken annually under the authorisations in at least 70% of years in the simulation period, if the authorisations were in existence for the whole of the simulation period, expressed as a percentage of the simulated mean annual diversion for the authorisations.

90% daily flow, for a month, means the flow, in megalitres, that is equalled or exceeded on 90% of days in the month in the simulation period.

adopted middle thread distance means the distance in kilometres, measured along the middle of a watercourse, that a specific point in the watercourse is, at the commencement of this plan, from—

AMTD means adopted middle thread distance.

annual proportional flow deviation means the statistical measure of changes to flow season and volume in the simulation period calculated using the formula for annual proportional flow deviation described in Technical Report 5 of ‘Fitzroy Basin Water Allocation and Management Planning Technical Reports’ published by the department.

Editor’s note—

Copies of the reports are available for inspection on the department’s website.

annual volumetric limit, for an authorisation, means the maximum volume of water that may be taken under the authorisation in a water year.

authorisation means a water licence, water permit, interim water allocation or other authority to take water given under the Act or the repealed Act, other than a permit for stock or domestic purposes.

critical water supply strategy ...

daily flow, for a node, means the volume of water that flows past the node in a day.

daily volumetric limit ...

discharge, for a flow at a point in a watercourse, means the rate at which water passes the point, measured in cubic metres a second or megalitres a day.

ecological assets include a species, a group of species, a biological function, an ecosystem and a place of natural value.

event duration, for a flow at a point in a watercourse, means the period of time when the discharge is greater than or less than the level necessary for a particular riverine process to happen.

flow regime means the entire range of flows at a point in a watercourse including variations in the watercourse height, discharge, seasonality, and event duration.

flow regime class means the measure of flow regime seasonality worked out using the method stated in Haines, A.T., Finlayson, B.L. and McMahon, T.A., ‘A global classification of river regimes. Applied Geography, 1988’.

groundwater means water from an underground source.

high priority group means the water allocations in a water supply scheme that are stated to be high priority group in the water allocations register.

hydraulic habitat requirements, of an ecological asset, are the biophysical conditions created by aspects of the flow regime that are—

infrastructure operating rules for infrastructure to which the resource operations plan applies, means the infrastructure operating rules included in the resource operations plan.

IQQM computer program means the department’s Integrated Quantity and Quality Modelling computer program, and associated statistical analysis and reporting programs, that simulate daily stream flows, flow management, storages, releases, instream infrastructure, water diversions, water demands and other hydrologic events in the plan area.

mean annual flow, for a node, means the total volume of flow, at the node, in the simulation period divided by the number of years in the simulation period.

monthly supplemented water sharing index, for authorisations in a water supply scheme, means the percentage of months in the simulation period in which the authorisations are fully supplied.

monthly volumetric limit ...

Nerang water supply scheme means the area that consists of—

node see section 7.

period of no flow, for a node, means a period in which the flow of water in the watercourse at the node is less than 1ML a day.

plan area means the area shown as the plan area on the map in schedule 1.

plan scenario flow pattern means the pattern of water flows, during the simulation period, decided by the chief executive using the IQQM computer program as if—

pre-development flow pattern means the pattern of water flows, during the simulation period, decided by the chief executive using the IQQM computer program as if—

priority area see section 58.

priority area 1 see schedule 10, section 1.

priority area 2 see schedule 10, section 2.

related development permit, for an authorisation, means the development permit for the works for taking water under the authorisation.

resource operations plan means the resource operations plan to implement this plan.

Note—

See the Act, section 1266.

seasonality, for a flow at a point in a watercourse, means the time of year when the flow happens.

SEQ regional plan means the regional plan under the Planning Act for the region named the SEQ region under the Planning Regulation 2017.

simulated mean annual diversion, for an authorisation or group of authorisations, means the total volume of water simulated to have been taken under the authorisations, if the authorisations were in existence for the whole of the simulation period, divided by the number of years in the simulation period.

simulation period means the period from 1 January 1890 to 30 December 2000.

subcatchment area see section 5.

supplemented water means water supplied under an interim resource operations licence, resource operations licence or other authority to operate water infrastructure.

this plan means this water resource plan.

traditional owners, of an area, means the Aboriginal people who identify as descendants of the original inhabitants of the area.

unsupplemented water means water that is not supplemented water.

water flow season means any of the following periods in a year—