14BServices Co-ordinator to determine site discharge periods

14B Services Co-ordinator to determine site discharge periods

14B Services Co-ordinator to determine site discharge periods

(1) The Services Co-ordinator is to determine the site discharge periods for each authorised discharge point.

(2) A site discharge period for an authorised discharge point is a period in which discharges of saline water are permitted from that authorised discharge point, subject to Part 3.

(3) A site discharge period is to be determined for every block that is a high flow block or a flood flow block in relation to the authorised discharge point concerned.

(4) Accordingly, the determination must specify:

(a) the authorised discharge point to which it applies, and

(b) the block to which it applies.

(5) There are to be no site discharge periods for low flow blocks.

Note—

The object of this restriction is to ensure that discharges of saline water are made into high flow and flood flow blocks, and not into low flow blocks.

(6) In determining a site discharge period, the Services Co-ordinator is to ensure that any discharge of saline water that is made from an authorised discharge point is made into the high flow block or flood flow block concerned.

(7) The start and finish times for a site discharge period are to be determined by the Services Co-ordinator based on an estimate of the time it will take a discharge from an authorised discharge point to reach and mix with a block as it passes through the sector in which the authorised discharge point is located.

(8) In determining a site discharge period, the Services Co-ordinator may make such adjustments as the Services Co-ordinator thinks fit to optimise water quality. For example, the Services Co-ordinator may adjust the start and finish times so as to ensure discharges mix with the higher flows of the block.

(9) The start and finish times for each site discharge period, in relation to a particular high flow or flood flow block, are to be entered in the River Register.

cll 14B: Ins 2016 (775), Sch 1 [13].