Water Allocation Plans
Provided below are links to the Water Allocation Plan (WAP) information on the regional natural resources management board websites.
Currently the Alinytjara Wilurara and Kangaroo Island natural resources management regions do not have any prescribed water resources, nor any notices of prohibition/restriction or notices of intent to prescribe on any of their water resources.
Quick links to the differnt NRM board WAPs are listed below:
- Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board
- Eyre Peninsula NRM Board
- Northern and Yorke NRM Board
- South Australian Arid Lands NRM Board
- South Australian Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board
- South East NRM Board
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges NRM Board
- Barossa WAP
- Central Adelaide Plains WAP
A water allocation plan is currently being drafted for this area. - Chapmans Creek Intake Prescribed Watercourse
Managed under the Water Resources (Penrice Exemption) Regulation 1997. - Dry Creek Prescribed Wells Area
Managed under the Water Resources (Penrice Exemption) Regulation 1997. - Little Para River Prescribed Watercourse
To be included in the Western Mount Lofty Ranges Plan. - McLaren Vale WAP
- Middle Beach Intake Prescribed Watercourse
Managed under the Water Resources (Penrice Exemption) Regulation 1997. - Northern Adelaide Plains WAP
This water allocation plan is currently being amended. - Northern Intake Prescribed Watercourse
Managed under the Water Resources (Penrice Exemption) Regulation 1997. - Western Mount Lofty Ranges Prescribed Water Resources Area
Will incorporate McLaren Vale Prescribed Wells Area and Little Para Prescribed Watercourses. Consultation on this draft plan ended on 10 January 2011 and the Board is currently considering all submissions. For more information visit the board’s website.
Eyre Peninsula NRM Board
- Musgrave Prescribed Wells Area WAP
This water allocation plan is currently being drafted. - Southern Basins Prescribed Wells Area WAP
This water allocation plan is currently being drafted. For more information visit the board’s website.
Northern and Yorke NRM Board
- Baroota WAP
This water allocation plan is currently being drafted. - Clare Valley WAP
- Upper Wakefield Notice of Intent to Prescribe.
For more information visit the board’s website.
South Australian Arid Lands NRM Board
- Far North Prescribed Wells Area WAP
For more information visit the board’s website.
Assessment of the needs of water dependent ecosystems for the Far North Presribed Wells Area (791KB PDF)
South Australian Murray-Darling Basin NRM Board
- Angas Bremer Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan has been reviewed and new policies will be developed in conjunction with the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges water allocation plan. - Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges Prescribed Water Resources Area
(will incorporate Angas Bremer Prescribed Wells Area) A water allocation plan is currently being drafted for this area. - Mallee Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan is currently being amended. - Marne and Saunders Prescribed Water Resources Area
Assessment of the needs of water dependent ecosystems for the Marne Saunders Prescribed Wells Area (1.52MB PDF)
- Noora Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan has been reviewed. - Peake, Roby and Sherlock Prescribed Wells Area
The Minister for Environment and Conservation adopted this plan on 2 March 2011.
Assessment of the needs of water dependent ecosystems for the Peake, Roby and Sherlock Prescribed Wells Area (3.19MB PDF)
- River Murray Prescribed Watercourse
For more information visit the board’s website.
South East NRM Board
- Comaum-Caroline Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan is under review and will be incorporated into the Lower Limestone Coast Prescribed Wells Area. - Hundred of Laffer
- On 23 September 2010, the Minister for Environment and Conservation published a notice in the Government Gazette stating that the regulation proposed to prescribe the wells in the Hundred of Laffer will not be made at this time.
- Lacepede Kongorong Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan is under review and will be incorporated into the Lower Limestone Coast Prescribed Wells Area. - Lower Limestone Coast WAP
Will incorporate Comaum-Caroline, Lacepede Kongorong and Naracoote Ranges Prescribed Wells Areas. A water allocation plan is currently being drafted for this area. - Morambro Creek and Nyroca Channel Prescribed Watercourses including Cockatoo Lake and the Prescribed Surface Area WAP
- Naracoorte Ranges Prescribed Wells Area
This water allocation plan is under review and will be incorporated into the Lower Limestone Coast Prescribed Wells Area. - Padthaway WAP
- Tatiara WAP
- Tintinara Coonalpyn WAP
This water allocation plan has been reviewed. For more information visit the board’s website.





