DRAFT - Ti Tree Water Allocation Plan 2019 - 2029,
Creator
Northern Territory. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Water Resources Division,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
Nov-19,
Date
2019-04,
Location
Ti Tree,
Description
The Draft Ti Tree Water Allocation Plan 2019-2029 applies to all surface water and groundwater within the Ti Tree Water Control District (TTWCD). It establishes an adaptive management framework for the allocation of water resources and the regulation of licensed water use. Its purpose is to ensure water resources are managed in a way that recognises and maintains environmental and cultural values while allowing water to be sustainably used for productive consumptive beneficial uses.
This plan’s principal objectives are to:
• Avoid detrimental impacts to water dependent ecosystems as a consequence of consumptive water use.
• Avoid negative impacts to cultural values of places reliant upon surface or groundwater as a consequence of consumptive water use.
• Secure domestic and public water supply for current and future population.
• Ensure fair access to water for economic activities for current users and future generations.
• Enhance opportunities for Aboriginal people to benefit from consumptive use and management of water.
This plan draws upon new and innovative research methodologies to identify water requirements and distribution of groundwater dependent ecosystems. This plan aims to protect cultural sites and water dependent ecosystems by establishing guidelines that seek to ensure water extraction will not impact detrimentally on environmental and cultural assets and values. In practice this means that the potential impact of proposed extraction on cultural and environmental sites will be assessed through modelling, and licences may not be granted if unacceptable impacts are predicted.,
Notes
Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).,
Table of contents
Key points -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Title -- 1.2 Plan area -- 1.3 Date of effect -- 1.4 Period of effect -- 1.5 Plan context -- 1.6 Plan development pathway -- 2 Purpose and objectives -- 2.1 Beneficial uses -- 3 Water resources (availability and condition) -- 3.1 Climate and rainfall -- 3.2 Surface water resources -- 3.3 Groundwater resources -- 3.4 Hydrologic modelling -- 4 Water use -- 4.1 Non-consumptive use -- 4.2 Consumptive use -- 4.3 Demand projections -- 5 Estimated sustainable yield -- 5.1 Allocation of water to beneficial uses -- 6 Water management arrangements -- 6.1 Water management framework -- 6.2 Water accounting period -- 6.3 Protection of environmental and cultural values -- 6.4 Licensing and other relevant regulation, policy and procedures -- 7 Risk identification and mitigation strategies -- 7.1 Risk and uncertainty -- 7.2 Risk assignment -- 7.3 Mitigation Strategies -- 8 Implementation, monitoring and review -- 8.1 Adaptive management -- 8.2 Implementation -- 8.3 Monitoring implementation -- 8.4 Reporting -- 8.5 Evaluating achievement of plan objectives -- Schedule A: Stakeholder and community consultation -- Schedule B: Risk definition and classification -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- References -- Further reading,
Language
English,
Subject
Water quality -- Australia -- Ti Tree Region,
Water-supply -- Australia -- Ti-Tree Region,
Groundwater -- Australia -- Ti-Tree Region,
Groundwater Modelling -- Australia -- Ti-Tree Region,
Water Allocation Plan,
Publisher name
Northern Territory Government,
Place of publication
Darwin,
Series
Nov-19,
Format
76 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm.,