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Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

This report provides the required background resource material to enable proceeding to the implementation stage of an assessment of the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin.

Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

The purpose of the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment Methodology Development project was to develop a scientifically based methodology for assessing the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin. Community and government have articulated the values of, and threats to, the Basin watercourses; these have been used as a guide for the scope of this assessment methodology.

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Ecology and management of the Lake Wellington wetlands, Gippsland Lakes

A report on the R&D project, 2003-2006

This handbook summarises the results of a four-year R&D project undertaken by staff at Victoria University and Monash University on the wetlands that fringe Lake Wellington in the Gippsland Lakes of south-eastern Victoria.

Investigating lake/groundwater interactions at Lake Tutchewop

Salinity is an on-going environmental concern that causes damage to agricultural land, downstream water users, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as to regional and urban infrastructure. One strategy to manage increasing salinity in the Murray Darling Basin is the construction of 13 major salt interception schemes that divert 550,000 tonnes of salt away from the Murray River each year (Figure 1). The Barr Creek Drainage Disposal Scheme is one of these schemes diverting saline water into (more)...