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Feb

2020

NSW Great Artesian Basin Groundwater Resource Description Report

Author: ABWUA
WATER SHARING PLAN FOR THE NSW GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN
GROUNDWATER SOURCES
Groundwater Resource Description
NSW Great Artesian Basin
February 2020

The Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Great Artesian Basin Groundwater Sources 2008 (WSP 2008) started in July 2008 for a period of 10 years up to June 2018. In June 2018, the Natural Resources Commission reviewed the WSP 2008 and recommended it for replacement in July 2020. Water sharing plans align with state-based water resource management policies and build on the existing water planning and management frameworks that have been established in NSW. 

The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is Australia’s largest groundwater basin, spreading across 1.7 million square kilometres of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory, or approximately 22% of Australia. The GAB underlies 207,592 square kilometres of New South Wales.
The Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Great Artesian Basin Groundwater Sources 2008 (WSP 2008) started in July 2008 for a period of 10 years up to June 2018. In June 2018, the Natural Resources Commission reviewed the WSP 2008 and recommended it for replacement in July 2020. Water sharing plans align with state-based water resource management policies and build on the existing water planning and management frameworks that have been established in NSW. The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is Australia’s largest groundwater basin, spreading across 1.7 million square kilometres of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory, or approximately 22% of Australia. The GAB underlies 207,592 square kilometres of New South Wales.

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2017

An Investigation of the Stygofauna Community in the Pilliga Area 2016-17.

Prepared for THE ARTESIAN BORE WATER USERS ASSOC. OF N.S.W. INC

Author: ABWUA
Executive Summary This report and field study was produced as a result of the comments in the Santos 2016 Environmental Impact Statement that “no stygofauna were collected during the sampling regime by Eco Logical” and therefore “there is an uncertainty regarding the presence of stygofauna at the project areas, especially Leewood”. The aim of this report is to provide certainty by demonstrating via a more extensive survey of bores across the Pilliga that stygofauna do indeed exist in the shallow aquifers of the Pilliga Forest, are at risk from the current and proposed future development of Coal Seam Gas production and therefore need to be considered and included in the environmental management program.
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ABWUA represents individual Bore Trusts and private bore owners in their dealings with government and other bodies where a collective voice is required. DPI Water is recovering water in the NSW Great Artesian Basin by capping and piping free-flowing artesian bores.

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