Water resources - Allocation and Use - Queensland
Basin and Surface Water Management Area: Lockhart River
Introduction
The National Water Reform Framework requires the development of comprehensive systems of water allocations or entitlements, backed by separation of water property rights from land and clear specification of entitlements in terms of ownership, volume, reliability, transferability and, if appropriate, quality. In addition State and Territory agencies are required to undertake formal determination of water allocations or entitlements, including allocations for the environment as a legitimate user of water.
Water use estimates have been derived from a number of different methods including the use of licencing systems, information provided as part of the Australian Bureau of Statistics water account (with provider consent) and other information gathered from the State and Territory water agencies. In some cases water use was assumed to be the same as the allocation. For groundwater systems, it is well known that this assumption is often invalid (e.g. typically where use exceeds allocation significantly).
Options for conjunctive use are also described.
Please note: The tables set out below detailing Level 1 and Level 2 water use categories. The sum of the Level 2 water use volumes will not necessarily equal the total Level 1 water use volumes. This is primarily due to lack of more detailed water use data. However, where Level 2 use = Level 1 use then blank cells in the table does not indicate water use unaccounted for in these categories.
How has water used changed since 1985?
| Use type | 1983-84 surface water use (ML/yr) | 1996-97 surface water use (ML/yr) | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | no data | 0 | |
| Irrigation | no data | 0 | no data |
| - fruit | N/A | no data | |
| - grape | N/A | no data | |
| - system loss | N/A | no data | |
| - sugar | N/A | no data | |
| - other | N/A | no data | |
| - pasture | N/A | no data | |
| - cereal | N/A | no data | |
| - vegetables | N/A | no data | |
| - other crop | N/A | no data | |
| - Cotton | N/A | no data | |
| Urban / Industrial | no data | 0 | no data |
| - municipal | N/A | no data | |
| - coal | N/A | no data | |
| - domestic unlicensed | N/A | no data | |
| - domestic | N/A | no data | |
| - mining | N/A | no data | |
| - industrial | N/A | no data | |
| - power | N/A | no data | |
| - comercial | N/A | no data | |
| - system loss | N/A | no data | |
| - industrial commercial | N/A | no data | |
| - other | N/A | no data | |
| - recreation | N/A | no data | |
| Rural | no data | 0 | no data |
| - aquaculture | N/A | no data | |
| - system loss | N/A | no data | |
| - other | N/A | no data | |
| - water supply | N/A | no data | |
| - stock domestic | N/A | no data |
PLEASE NOTE
Changes since 1985:
1985 Mean Annual Flow
This basin had too short a period of streamflow record to be useful or with a gauged area less than one third of the basin area. Streamflow records for this basin were not used in the derivation of the basin discharge.
Streamflows were estimated using rainfall standardised to the fifty year period form 1920 to 1969 and regional rainfall runoff curves.
2000 Mean Annual Flow
Mean Annual Flow in the SWMA was derived using a daily Sacramento Model. A Sacramento Model was first calibrated for a geographically similar catchment (SWMA102). The calibrated parameters were then used with the mean daily catchment rainfall and area of the SWMA to produce an estimated daily flow for the period from 1900 to 1999.
The resulting SWMA catchment runoff is 1992500 ML/yr compared with the 1985 Audit mwan annual runoff of 1631000 ML/yr.
Divertible Yield
In 1985 this was determined by identification of possible storage sites and yield assessment of storage sites not previously analysed using a Gould Gamma method.
Development carried out since the 1985 study has shown this method and the selection of storage sites to be inappropriate for this study. Water Allocation Management Plans (WAMP) and Water Management Plans (WMP) are currently being developed for much of Queensland and consequentially no response has been included in this study.
What are the uses of surface water in Lockhart River and to what is it allocated?
| Use type | Diversion Volume (ML/yr) | Allocation (ML/yr) | Diversion: Alloc (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 0 | 0 | |
| Irrigation | 0 | 0 | |
| Rural | 0 | 0 | |
| Urban / Industrial | 0 | 0 |
Allocation for each SWMA represents the volume of the management area's surface water resources allocated for use both within the basin and for use in other SWMAs. The volume diverted is the total volume of the SWMA's surface water resources diverted for use both within the management area and for export to other management areas.
What are the sources of water within Lockhart River?
| Total use | ML/yr | % |
|---|---|---|
| Surface water - from this area | 0 | |
| Surface water - imported into this area | no data |
PLEASE NOTE :
Options for conjunctive use:
The Lockhart SWMA has no metered or estimated surface use data and is not intersected by any Groundwater Management Unit (GMU). The SWMA cannot therefore be assessed for the potential for joint water use.
Further information
- Queensland Water Resources Assessment 2000 Report
- Queensland Water Resources Assessment 2000 Technical Report
- For more information about water and other natural resource issues link to www.nrm.qld.gov.au
- Link to data available for download on the Surface Water Management Areas
- Link to the Map Maker to make a map using this information.
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