Public submission document on Statewide policy 16 Document Size: 106030 bytes Publish Date: 10-JUL-2008 10:28 AM This document collates the comments from public stakeholders and provides the department's response to the issues raised on Statewide policy no 16.
Statewide Policy No. 01 - Policy and Guidelines for Construction and Silica Sand Mining in Public Drinking Water Source Areas Document Size: 107073 bytes Publish Date: 01-NOV-1999 04:51 PM The objective of this policy is to protect water quality and quantity within Public Drinking Water Source Areas from the adverse impacts of sand mining operations, and ensure that all sites are rehabilitated to an acceptable standard. This policy applies to all construction and silica sand mining operations within Public Drinking Water Source Areas.
Statewide Policy No. 03 - Water Sharing Document Size: 88632 bytes Publish Date: 01-MAY-2000 04:53 PM This paper sets out a proposed interim policy basis for managing surface and groundwater allocations in Western Australia.
Statewide Policy No. 05 - Environmental Water Provisions Policy for Western Australia Document Size: 507391 bytes Publish Date: 01-NOV-2000 04:54 PM This policy describes principles and processes to be applied by the Department in determining how much water should be retained for the environment when allocating and reviewing water use rights. It also identifies important linkages to the State's statutory framework.
Statewide Policy No. 06 - Transferable (Tradeable) Water Entitlements for Western Australia Document Size: 187441 bytes Publish Date: 01-OCT-2001 04:54 PM The intent of this policy is to provide a consistent and comprehensive policy foundation for the implementation of Transferable (or Tradeable) Water Entitlements (TWE) in Western Australia. It has been prepared to foresee many of the policy issues that may arise with implementation and explain how the Department will address them. This policy will provide guidance to Department staff, water users and other interested parties.
Statewide Policy No. 09 - Water Licensing - Staged Developments Document Size: 224835 bytes Publish Date: 01-NOV-2003 04:56 PM This policy has been prepared to enable the Department to address exceptional situations where secure water allocations are needed by licence applicants who require a reasonable time to achieve full operating capacity of their development and use their entire water entitlement.
Statewide Policy No. 10 - Use of Operating Strategies in the Water Licensing Process Document Size: 231521 bytes Publish Date: 01-MAY-2006 04:56 PM This policy applies State wide, to all applicants and licensees (regardless of the nature of their legal structure) who are required to develop and implement an operating strategy, as a condition of being granted a licence under the Rights In Water and Irrigation Act 1914 to take and user either groundwater or surface water.
Statewide Policy No. 11 - Management of Unused Licensed Water Entitlements Document Size: 208683 bytes Publish Date: 01-NOV-2003 04:57 PM This policy has been prepared to provide a consistent approach in managing unused licensed water entitlements. It establishes a set of principles that will guide the Department when making decisions on licensed water entitlements that have consistently not been fully utilised and under what conditions these entitlements may be recouped for possible redistribution.
Statewide Policy No. 12 - Management of Complaints and Disputes on Watercourses in WA Document Size: 484228 bytes Publish Date: 01-JUN-2004 04:57 PM This policy describes the process for managing stream disputes and under what conditions the Commission will be involved such disputes. It details the responsibility, actions and information to be provided by landowners accessing the watercourse, if a dispute arises.
Statewide Policy No. 13 - Policy and Guidelines for Recreation within Public Drinking Water Source Areas on Crown Land Document Size: 332577 bytes Publish Date: 01-NOV-2003 04:58 PM The primary aim of this policy document is to protect the ‘drinking water’ environmental value of PDWSAs on Crown land, in the interest of public health. This will be achieved by protecting drinking water sources from contamination that may be caused by inappropriate recreational activities. It is also expected that other values (e.g. aquatic ecosystems) will be afforded some protection through this policy.
Statewide policy no 16 - Policy on water conservation/efficiency plans Document Size: 155821 bytes Publish Date: 10-JUL-2008 10:29 AM This statewide policy relates to the government's water efficiency initiatives. The plans are linked to the government’s State water strategy key direction for water efficiency, which recommended that these plans be prepared by water users as part of the water licensing process.
Statewide Policy No. 19 - Hydrogeological reporting associated with a Groundwater Well Licence Document Size: 157388 bytes Publish Date: 02-MAY-2007 03:31 PM This policy provides guidance on when Hydrogeological Assessments and groundwater monitoring reports (collectively referred to as hydrogeological reports) will be required, and the information that they should contain. It replaces the current guidelines for hydrogeological reports and groundwater monitoring reports associated with a Groundwater Well Licence (Water and Rivers Commission, May 1998).
