Water Resource (Whitsunday) Plan 2010

This section states the proposed arrangements for implementing this plan.

Within 2 years after the plan notification day, it is proposed to prepare a resource operations plan to—

grant, or convert authorisations to, water allocations to take water in all of the priority areas; and

for water in the Proserpine River Water Supply Scheme—make environmental management rules, infrastructure operating rules, water sharing rules, water allocation change rules and seasonal water assignment rules; and

establish a process to deal with unallocated water available for future water requirements in the plan area; and

establish a process for granting water under water licences for taking overland flow water; and

implement the monitoring requirements mentioned in chapter 6; and

provide better specification for all other water licences for taking or interfering with water in the plan area.

In this section—

the parts of La Di Da Creek, Kelsey Creek and Lethe Brook that are in the authority area of the Kelsey Creek Water Board;

the part of Six Mile Creek that is in the authority area of the Six Mile Creek Water Supply Board;

the Proserpine River;

the Andromache River, other than its tributaries, downstream from its confluence with Horse Creek AMTD 37.8km;

the O’Connell River, other than its tributaries, downstream from its confluence with Kanaka Creek AMTD 52.9km.