Table 1.1 Resource management and environmental protection policies invoked by managed aquifer recharge operations Management issue: Protection of human Resource Management issue: Water storage health and environment allocation and entitlements Attribute: Quality (addressed in this Attribute: Quantity (not addressed in guideline) this guideline) Water Recycling: Augmentation of surface Source of Drinking Water Supplies water entitlements water for NHMRC 2008) or the Phase Interjurisdictional agreements recharge • 1 guidelines If source is groundwater, see next • Risk management plan for water- • row quality assurance see the Phase 1 — • guidelines flow If source water is groundwater, quality Catchment pollution • • protection plan for source aquifer must control plan see Appendix — 3 of Phase 1 of the guidelines be in accordance with the groundwater protection guidelines (ARMCANZ– Water Water-quality requirements for • • ANZECC 1995) intended uses of recovered water allocation see — plans and Australian Guidelines for 1995) Groundwater Groundwater allocation plan and • Water-quality requirements for groundwater entitlements • intended uses of groundwater see — Resource assessment accounting • Australian and New Zealand Water for groundwater-dependent Quality Guidelines for Fresh and ecosystems (ANZECC– Marine Waters, Demand management • ARMCANZ 2000a), the Phase 1 Allocatable capacity and guidelines, or • Australian Guidelines for entitlement for additional storage Water Recycling: Augmentation of in the aquifer (NRMMC– Drinking Water Supplies Interjurisdictional agreements EPHC–NHMRC 2008) • Risk management plan for water- • quality assurance beyond attenuation Groundwater-quality protection plan for • zone, accounting for aquifer recharged aquifer in accordance with groundwater biogeochemical processes protection guidelines (ARMCANZ–ANZECC 1.3 Stages of project development and assessment These guidelines adopt the risk management approach defined in the Phase 1 guidelines. The approach recognises that the level of some risks cannot be fully understood before managed aquifer recharge is implemented at full scale, due to uncertainties associated with aquifer processes. However, with adequate system characterisation and assessment, it is possible to adopt preventive measures and operational procedures (including incident and emergency management). These measures and procedures allow the system to be implemented and protective measures to be validated, without compromising acceptable uses of recovered
Table 1.1 Resource management and environmental protection policies invoked by managed aquifer recharge operations Resource Management issue: Water storage allocation and entitlements Attribute: Quantity (not addressed in this guideline) Management issue: Protection of human health and environment Attribute: Quality (addressed in this guideline) Source of water for recharge • flow • Water allocation plans and surface water entitlements • Interjurisdictional agreements • If source is groundwater, see next row • Catchment pollution control plan — see Appendix 3 of Phase 1 of the guidelines • Water-quality requirements for intended uses of recovered water — see Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Augmentation of Drinking Water Supplies NHMRC 2008) or the Phase 1 guidelines • Risk management plan for water- quality assurance — see the Phase 1 guidelines • If source water is groundwater, quality protection plan for source aquifer must be in accordance with the groundwater protection guidelines (ARMCANZ– ANZECC 1995) Groundwater • Groundwater allocation plan and groundwater entitlements • Resource assessment accounting for groundwater-dependent ecosystems • Demand management • Allocatable capacity and entitlement for additional storage in the aquifer • Interjurisdictional agreements • Groundwater-quality protection plan for recharged aquifer in accordance with groundwater protection guidelines (ARMCANZ–ANZECC 1995) • Water-quality requirements for intended uses of groundwater — see Australian and New Zealand Water Quality Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Waters, (ANZECC– ARMCANZ 2000a), the Phase 1 guidelines, or Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Augmentation of Drinking Water Supplies (NRMMC– EPHC–NHMRC 2008) • Risk management plan for water- quality assurance beyond attenuation zone, accounting for aquifer biogeochemical processes 1.3 Stages of project development and assessment These guidelines adopt the risk management approach defined in the Phase 1 guidelines. The approach recognises that the level of some risks cannot be fully understood before managed aquifer recharge is implemented at full scale, due to uncertainties associated with aquifer processes. However, with adequate system characterisation and assessment, it is possible to adopt preventive measures and operational procedures (including incident and emergency management). These measures and procedures allow the system to be implemented and protective measures to be validated, without compromising acceptable uses of recovered