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zone, whether or not the water enters the saturated zone and becomes recharge to the groundwater system.
Department means the Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
de‑watering means controlling or lowering the level of groundwater within an aquifer.
EC means electrical conductivity, expressed in microsiemens per centimetre (µS/cm).
ecological objective means an objective for the protection, and if necessary restoration, of a priority environmental asset or priority ecosystem function.
ecological target means a target that must be met in order to achieve an ecological objective.
environmental assets and ecosystem functions database has the meaning given by section 8.48.
environmental water recovery recommendations has the meaning given by section 8.46.
environmental watering requirements means the environmental watering requirements of a priority environmental asset or priority ecosystem function, as the case may be, identified using the methods set out in Part 5 of Chapter 8.
floodplain harvesting means the taking of water from a floodplain, including after it leaves a watercourse during a flood.
form of take means any of the following forms of take:
            (a) take from a watercourse;
            (b) take from a regulated river;
            (c) take by floodplain harvesting;
            (d) take by runoff dams;
            (e) net take by commercial plantations;
            (f) take from groundwater;
            (g) take under basic rights.
generally available: information is generally available if it has been published in a manner that will, or will be likely to, bring it to the attention of interested members of the public.
groundwater means:
            (a) water occurring naturally below ground level (whether in an aquifer or otherwise); or
            (b) water occurring at a place below ground that has been pumped, diverted or released to that place for the purpose of being stored there;
but does not include water held in underground tanks, pipes or other works.
groundwater resource means a Basin water resource consisting of:
            (a) groundwater; or
            (b) an aquifer (whether or not it has water in it).
groundwater SDL resource unit has the meaning given by section 6.03.
Guidelines for Managing Risks in Recreational Water means the Guidelines for Managing Risks in Recreational Water published by the National Health and Medical Research Council in 2008.
historical climate conditions means the climatic conditions for the period July 1895 to June 2009 represented by the best available records of hydrological and meteorological information for that period.
hydraulic connectivity means the ease with which, or the rate at which, groundwater moves:
            (a) within an aquifer; or
            (b) between aquifers; or
            (c) between aquifers and the adjacent or overlying surface water system.
hydrologic connections and water supply considerations has the meaning given by section 12.18.
Indigenous uses has the meaning given by section 10.52.
Indigenous values has the meaning given