Common use of Aim of Project Activities Clause in Contracts

Aim of Project Activities. The purpose of the Priority Project is to licence and control floodplain extractions and improve watering of key environmental assets across New South Wales. The Priority Project will increase the volume of flow to wetlands on floodplains through controls on water capture and through development and implementation of floodplain management plans. The project will be implemented across the five northern valleys in that part of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Basin which is within NSW (Gwydir, Border ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ (Upper and Lower), Macquarie and Barwon-Darling). As the Namoi valley is considered in Upper and Lower catchments, the Milestones will refer to a total of six catchments when describing the Valley Wide Floodplain Management Plans. This Priority Project will assist the State to meet its commitments to the IGA and meet its Reform Requirements. The outcomes of this Priority Project comprise: Improved understanding of the relationship between floodplain flows, extractions and wetland health in order to improve floodplain water management; Improved accuracy of NSW’s water accounting such that compliance with long term draft extraction limits, under NSW’s Water Plans and future sustainable diversion limits (SDLs), under the Basin Plan can be determined with more certainty; and Ensure that environmental water entitlements held by environmental water managers can be used to support flood-dependent ecosystems, generally in accordance with clause 78 and 79 of the National Water Initiative.