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Interagency Agreement between NSW and MDBA
The MDBA and the former NSW Department of Industry (now Department of Planning and Environment) signed an agreement on 28 February 2019 relating to specified measures in anticipation of water resource plans coming into effect.
Reporting against these measures was required on 16 April 2019 (progress report) and 16 June 2019 (final report). The final reports for Surface Water and Groundwater can be found below.
Fact sheets
A series of fact sheets have been developed to help the community provide informed feedback on the various elements of the water resource plans.
Groundwater
- Specifying planned environmental water fact sheet (PDF 48.2 KB)
- Compliance with sustainable diversion limits for groundwater fact sheet (PDF 44.5 KB)
- Available water determinations for groundwater fact sheet (PDF 49.2 KB)
- Groundwater take - complying with limits for groundwater sources fact sheet (PDF 269.7 KB)
Surface water
- Maintaining the protection of planned environmental water – surface water fact sheet (PDF 44.7 KB)
- Active management to share flows fact sheet (PDF 60.1 KB)
- Sustainable diversion limit compliance for surface water fact sheet (PDF 42.6 KB)
- Floodplain harvesting policy changes fact sheet (PDF 38.8 KB)