NT WATER ALLOCATION PLANNING AREAS

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF

Arafura Sea Water Allocation Plans aim to Bathurst Melville Island ensure the equitable sharing of Island available water between users, HOWARD to protect the environment and NHULUNBUY ensure the long term sustainability DARWIN of the water resource. Timor HWY Sea Jabiru ARNHEM ARNHEM LAND They usually occur in regions where there are competing demands for BERRY SPRINGS Adelaide River water, there is risk from water use to significant environmental values or a need to manage the whole Pine Creek system (surface water and Groote Eylandt groundwater resources) due to Numbulwar their significant inter-connection. OOLLOO KATHERINE HIGHWAY KATHERINE ROPER Gulf of Declared Water Carpentaria AY Allocation Plans MATARANKA Timber HIGHW Creek DALY WATERS Larrimah Katherine: 2016 - 2019

VICTORIA Daly Alice Springs: 2016 - 2026 Waters CARPENTARIA Berry Springs: 2016 - 2026 Top Springs Dunmarra HIGHWAY Western Davenport: HIGHWAY 2011 - 2021 (under review)

Elliott Water Allocation BUNTINE Plans in Progress STUART

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HIGHWAY Ti Tree: In draft

BARKLY Oolloo: In draft

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S O U T H A U S T R A L I A October 2016 QUEENSLAND WESTERN File: NT_Water-Allocation-Plans kilometres 0 100 200 300 AUSTRALIA 400 kilometres SOUTH Drawing Ref: DENR2016019 AUSTRALIA Projection - Lamberts Conformal Conic NEW SOUTH C Northern Territory of Australia Standard Parallels 23^20’00"S & 12^40’00"S WALES The Northern Territory of Australia does not warrant that the Horizontal Datum GDA 94 VICTORIA product or any part of it is correct or complete and will not be liable for any loss damage or injury suffered by any person as a TASMANIA result f its inaccuracy or incompleteness.