Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00760:reg:5:p1
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Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 225546–228409

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Note 1: Schedule B to the Agreement imposes obligations on the Commonwealth and Basin States in relation to decisions that may have a 'Significant Effect' on salinity, and how to account for these effects.
Note 2: The target values can be expressed in milligrams per litre (mg/L) by multiplying the EC values by 0.6.
(6) The Authority must:
            (a) monitor salinity levels at each reporting site in paragraph (5)(c) on a daily basis; and
            (b) conduct, at the end of each water accounting period, an assessment of whether the target values in paragraph (5)(c) have been met over the period that consists of that water accounting period and the previous 4 water accounting periods; and
            (c) publish the findings of each assessment on its website.

        Division 3—Water quality targets for water resource plans

9.15 Purpose of Division
The targets set out in this Division are to inform the development of certain measures which are required to be included in water resource plans.
Note 1: See Part 7 of Chapter 10. In some circumstances, a WQM plan in a water resource plan may specify alternatives to target values set out in this Division: see subsection 10.32(4).
Note 2: The targets in this Division relate to fresh water‑dependent ecosystems, irrigation water and recreational water. The ADWG sets out standards for the quality of raw water for treatment for human consumption.

9.16 Water quality targets for fresh water‑dependent ecosystems
(1) The water quality targets for fresh water‑dependent ecosystems (including fresh water‑dependent ecosystems that are declared Ramsar wetlands) are that a water quality characteristic in a target application zone meets the target value for that characteristic and zone set out in Schedule 11.
(2) The target application zone, of a particular name, means the area within the boundary described by the polygon of that name included in the dataset that:
            (a) is titled Water Quality Zones; and
            (b) has a dataset scale of 1:250,000; and
            (c) is held by the Authority at the commencement of the Basin Plan.
(3) The Authority must publish on its website a map that:
            (a) identifies each target application zone; and
            (b) uses the dataset referred to in subsection (2).

9.17 Water quality targets for irrigation water
(1) The water quality targets for irrigation water are that the values for a water quality characteristic meet the target values set out in this section 95% of the time over each period of 10 years that ends at the end of a water accounting period.
(2) The target values apply at sites in the Murray‑Darling Basin where water is extracted by an irrigation infrastructure operator for the purpose of irrigation.
Note:  Water resource plans are