Queensland uses the term 'overland flow'. Overland flow is water that runs across the land after rainfall, either before it enters a watercourse, after it leaves a watercourse as floodwater, or after it rises to the surface naturally from underground. Most water in rivers and underground reserves originates as overland flow. If too much water is intercepted before it reaches a watercourse, or if too much floodwater is intercepted before it returns to a watercourse, there can be serious implications for:
•towns, industries and farms that rely on watercourses for water supplies
•landholders who rely on beneficial flooding
•the maintenance of healthy waterways
• groundwater recharge
• ecosystems relying on periodic inundation .
A person may harvest overland flow for any purpose unless there is a moratorium notice, a WRP or wild river declaration that limits or alters the water that may be harvested. Rules in WRPs established under the Queensland Water Act 2000 regulate the building of works that harvest overland flow either actively or passively. Works that harvest overland flow actively include:
• pumps, storages, sumps, drains and pipes used to harvest and store it
• any storage connected to another one used to harvest it, and the connecting infrastructure
• structures used to hold it for ponded pastures.
Works that harvest overland flow passively include:
• levees or diversion banks used to direct it into dams or to slow it down to increase the amount harvested. This does not include works used in soil conservation. WRPs do not regulate works that interfere with, but were not built specifically to harvest overland flow; however, local planning laws may still regulate the building of these structures, which include:
• contour banks
• fences
• roads.
Where the construction of overland flow works is regulated, the development may be either assessable or self-assessable development under the Queensland Sustainable Planning Act 2009.Currently, the harvesting of overland flow is regulated in the following water resource plan areas:
• Border Rivers
• Condamine and Balonne
• Moonie
• Warrego, Paroo and Nebine.
In all of these areas, the harvesting of overland flow requires:
• no increase in overland flow take permitted for purposes other than listed in the WRP in these plan areas
• no increase in overland flow take permitted for irrigation purposes
• an authorisation to harvest overland flow for purposes other than stock and domestic
• a development permit under the Queensland Sustainable Planning Act2009 for most works for harvesting overland flow
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