How much groundwater is allocated in the Billabong Creek Alluvium Groundwater Management Unit, and for what purpose?
Allocation Methods and Policy: Allocation policy, and the licensing policy by which it is implemented, have evolved substantially in New South Wales during the past several decades. The original intent of bore licensing was the collection of data about groundwater systems, and licences were issued in perpetuity and without any restriction on pumpage. With the rapid expansion of groundwater use for (particularly) irrigation use during the 1960s and 1970s, the requirement for management of the resource led to a change to time limited (renewable) and conditional licences with some restrictions on pumpage. Stock and domestic bores were still issued with a licence in perpetuity, with no limit on the volume pumped. Industrial and municipal users were issued with licences which had a condition nominating a volumetric allocation, but irrigators were licensed to irrigate a nominated area of land. Licence conditions were refined further during the 1980s when volumetric conditions were introduced
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