Publication (Technical report): Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program. Stage 1: Statewide Framework

Publication Type:	Technical report / Consultancy
Publication Name:	Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program. Stage 1: Statewide Framework

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Cottingham, P., Stewardson, M. and Webb, A. (2005) Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program. Stage 1: Statewide Framework. Report to the Dept of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria, CRC for Freshwater Ecology and CRC for Catchment Hydrology, Melbourne.

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1 876810 43 2

Abstract:

The Victorian Government is committed to evaluating ecosystem response to environmental flows in six to eight regulated rivers that are to receive enhancements to their flow regime. To achieve this, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) requires a consistent, scientifically defensible, framework for monitoring ecosystem responses to environmental flow releases, as well as flexible monitoring plans and ongoing scientific support. This will be delivered as a three-stage process that includes:

1. Development of a Statewide framework,
2. Consolidation of monitoring and evaluation plans for the individual rivers,
3. Future evaluation of data collected as part of the program.

The Victorian framework (Stage 1) reported here is based on a CRCFE framework for developing environmental flow monitoring and assessment projects (Cottingham et al. 2005), supplemented by advice provided at a workshop (held on the 9th June 2005) attended by DSE staff and scientists with experience in environmental flow and monitoring programs. Comments from other scientists on the proposed monitoring program have also been incorporated into this document.

Stage 2 of the project commenced in November 2005 and is due for completion by June 2006.

Contributing CRCFE staff:
Peter Cottingham, Angus Webb

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