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[email protected]>. Foreword This Moreton Resource Operations Plan implements the outcomes and strategies specified in the Water Resource (Moreton) Plan 2007 for sustainably allocating and managing water to meet the future needs of this area. The plan will make a vital contribution to providing enhanced certainty and security for the communities of the plan area within the broader South East Queensland context. Finalised after an extensive period allowed for comment and review, the plan will also ensure that the flows necessary to maintain the ecological health of the plan area’s river systems are structured to reflect natural cycles of wet and dry. The finalised resource operations plan provides for: existing supplemented entitlements to convert to tradeable water allocations with defined water allocation security objectives and complementary environmental flow objectives the operational and management requirements of the plan area’s four water supply schemes, including water sharing rules and rules to guide the permanent and seasonal trading of water allocations water licence applications to be dealt with.