Murray-Darling Basin
33.1 Other statutory groundwater rights

The volumetric value for the line item for the 2010–11 year was 23,683 ML. The line item includes groundwater rights (including land owner basic rights, and mining rights not under water access entitlements) other than entitlements within the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) region. The following table presents breakdown information for the line item value on sustainable diversion limit (SDL) area basis.

 

Other statutory groundwater rights in the MDB region as applicable in the 2010–11 year

Groundwater resource plan area	SDL area		State	Volume (ML)	Data source
	Code	Name
GW16 Gwydir Alluvium	GS29	Lower Gwydir Alluvium	NSW	700	Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Gwydir Groundwater Source 2003
GW15 Namoi Alluvium	GS34	Lower Namoi Alluvium	NSW	3,304	Water Sharing Plan for Upper and Lower Namoi Groundwater Sources 2003
	GS45	Peel Valley Alluvium	NSW	4,293	Water Sharing Plan for Peel Valley Regulated, Unregulated, Alluvium and Fractured Rock
	GS51	Upper Namoi Alluvium	NSW	2,832	Water Sharing Plan for Upper and Lower Namoi Groundwater Sources 2003
GW12 Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium	GS31	Lower Macquarie Alluvium	NSW	1,730	Water Sharing Plan for Lower Macquarie Groundwater Sources 2003
Sub-total Northern Basin				12,859
GW10 Lachlan Alluvium	GS30	Lower Lachlan Alluvium	NSW	4,000	Water Sharing Plan for Lower Murrumbidgee Groundwater Source 2003
GW9 Murrumbidgee Alluvium	GS33	Lower Murrumbidgee Alluvium (deep: Calivil Formation and Renmark Group)	NSW	1,000	Water Sharing Plan for Lower Murrumbidgee Groundwater Source 2003
		Lower Murrumbidgee Alluvium (shallow: Shepparton Formation)	NSW	3,000	Water Sharing Plan for Lower Murray Groundwater Source
GW8 Murray Alluvium	GS32	Lower Murray Alluvium (deep: Renmark Group and Calivil Formation)	NSW	1,525	Water Allocation Plan for the Noora Prescribed Wells area
GW4 South Australian Murray	GS3	Mallee (Pliocene Sands, Murray Group Limestone and Renmark Group)	SA	700	Mallee Prescribed Wells Area Water Allocation Plan 2000 and Noora Prescribed Wells area 2001
	GS5	Peake – Roby – Sherlock (confined)	SA	410	Water Allocation Plan for the Peake, Roby and Sherlock Prescribed Wells Area
		Peake – Roby – Sherlock (unconfined)	SA	190
Sub-total Southern Basin				10,825
Total for the region				23,684

 

The table provides information about New South Wales and South Australia. Information about other statutory groundwater rights in other jurisdictions:

• Australian Capital Territory – no information available to be reported

• Queensland – no information available to be reported

• Victoria – in addition to licensed groundwater entitlements in Victoria there is a "domestic and stock" groundwater entitlement. This is associated with an approval to construct a bore and there are no formal volumes assigned to these entitlements.

See Supporting information.

Murray–Darling Basin Authority.

Extracted/calculated from jurisdictional water sharing plans for groundwater resources.

The entitlement volumes reported are the initial volumes of the water sharing plans. The actual volumes of entitlements during the 2010–11 year may be different from the initial volumes on issue at the time of the water plans' commencement, due to conversions between classes or issue of new entitlements. Note that trade (ownership transfer), water savings projects or buy-back of entitlements for environmental purpose do not change the volume entitled within a class but only its ownership.

The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.

 

This line item corresponds to line item R2.1.2 Other lumped basic right, reported in the 2010 Account. In the 2011 Account, the following scope change was made that caused the 2009–10 year value to be restated:

• Inclusion of GS3 Mallee (Pliocene Sands, Murray Group Limestone and Renmark Group) SDL area in the 2011 Account.

The changes and their respective values are detailed in the following table.

 

Restatement of comparative year information made for the line item 33.1 Other statutory groundwater rights

2010 Account line items	Segment	Volume at 30 June 2010 reported in the 2010 Account (ML)	Difference due to scope change (ML)	Volume at 30 June 2010 reported in the 2011 Account (ML)
R2.1.2 Other lumped basic right	Northern Basin	8,566	0	8,566
	Southern Basin	9,525	700	10,225
	Whole region	18,091	700	18,791