sec.379Content of spring impact management strategy

### sec.379 Content of spring impact management strategy A responsible entity’s spring impact management strategy must include each of the following for each spring of interest in the area to which the entity’s underground water impact report or final report relates— the details of the spring, including its location; an assessment of the connectivity between the spring and the aquifer over which the spring is located; the predicted risk to, and likely impact on, the ecosystem and cultural and spiritual values of the spring because of a decline in water level of the aquifer over which the spring is located; a strategy, including the actions to be taken, for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring or, if a strategy for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring under paragraph (c) is not included, the reason for not including the strategy; a timetable for implementing the strategy; a program for reporting to the office about the implementation of the strategy. If the strategy is prepared for a final report, the strategy must also include a statement about any matters under a previous strategy that have not yet been complied with. In this section— cultural and spiritual values , of a spring, means its aesthetic, historical, scientific, social or other significance to the present generation or past or future generations. spring of interest means a spring overlying an aquifer affected by underground water rights, if— the water level in the aquifer is predicted, in an underground water impact report or final report, to decline by more than the spring trigger threshold at the location of the spring at any time; and the cause of the predicted decline is, or is likely to be, the exercise of the underground water rights. spring trigger threshold , for an aquifer, means a decline in the water level of the aquifer that is— if a regulation prescribes the threshold for a particular area—the prescribed threshold for the area; or otherwise—0.2m. s 379 prev s 379 om 2008 No. 34 s 714 pres s 379 ins 2010 No. 53 s 195 amd 2012 No. 39 s 61 ; 2014 No. 64 s 89 (sec.379-ssec.1) A responsible entity’s spring impact management strategy must include each of the following for each spring of interest in the area to which the entity’s underground water impact report or final report relates— the details of the spring, including its location; an assessment of the connectivity between the spring and the aquifer over which the spring is located; the predicted risk to, and likely impact on, the ecosystem and cultural and spiritual values of the spring because of a decline in water level of the aquifer over which the spring is located; a strategy, including the actions to be taken, for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring or, if a strategy for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring under paragraph (c) is not included, the reason for not including the strategy; a timetable for implementing the strategy; a program for reporting to the office about the implementation of the strategy. (sec.379-ssec.2) If the strategy is prepared for a final report, the strategy must also include a statement about any matters under a previous strategy that have not yet been complied with. (sec.379-ssec.3) In this section— cultural and spiritual values , of a spring, means its aesthetic, historical, scientific, social or other significance to the present generation or past or future generations. spring of interest means a spring overlying an aquifer affected by underground water rights, if— the water level in the aquifer is predicted, in an underground water impact report or final report, to decline by more than the spring trigger threshold at the location of the spring at any time; and the cause of the predicted decline is, or is likely to be, the exercise of the underground water rights. spring trigger threshold , for an aquifer, means a decline in the water level of the aquifer that is— if a regulation prescribes the threshold for a particular area—the prescribed threshold for the area; or otherwise—0.2m. - (a) the details of the spring, including its location; - (b) an assessment of the connectivity between the spring and the aquifer over which the spring is located; - (c) the predicted risk to, and likely impact on, the ecosystem and cultural and spiritual values of the spring because of a decline in water level of the aquifer over which the spring is located; - (d) a strategy, including the actions to be taken, for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring or, if a strategy for preventing or mitigating the predicted impacts on the spring under paragraph (c) is not included, the reason for not including the strategy; - (e) a timetable for implementing the strategy; - (f) a program for reporting to the office about the implementation of the strategy. - (a) the water level in the aquifer is predicted, in an underground water impact report or final report, to decline by more than the spring trigger threshold at the location of the spring at any time; and - (b) the cause of the predicted decline is, or is likely to be, the exercise of the underground water rights. - (a) if a regulation prescribes the threshold for a particular area—the prescribed threshold for the area; or - (b) otherwise—0.2m.