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West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority Annual Report 08-09 Chair & CEO’S Report West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority Annual Report 08-09 Chair & CEO’s Report CONTENTS SECTION ONE Chair and CEO’s Report 2 SECTION TWO WGCMA 6 Our Purpose 6 Our Organisation 7 Our Operating Environment 8 Principles of Value 9 Key Areas of Focus 10 Overview of the Region 11 SECTION THREE GOVERNANCE 12 The Board and Sub-committees 12 Organisational Structure 13 Statutory Reporting 15 Report Against Corporate Plan Targets 20 Disclosure Index 23 SECTION FOUR MANAGEMENT 24 Management Structure 24 Land Planning Unit Report 25 Water Unit Report 26 Corporate Services Unit Report 27 Partnership Development Unit Report 28 Operations Unit Report 28 SECTION FIVE CATCHMENT REPORTING 30 Catchment Condition Report Corner Inlet 32 Catchment Condition Report Latrobe 34 Catchment Ecosystem Program Achievements 36 • Bunurong Coast Catchment Ecosystem 36 • Corner Inlet Catchment Ecosystem 38 • Lake Wellington Catchment Ecosystem 40 • Latrobe Catchment Ecosystem 42 • Macalister Catchment Ecosystem 44 • Ninety Mile Beach Catchment Ecosystem 46 • Thomson Catchment Ecosystem 48 • Regional 50 GINRF Report Card 52 SECTION SIX FINANCES 54 Financial Statements 54 Auditor General’s Statement 81 HALL OF FAME 83 ISSN 1836-0629 © State of Victoria, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority 2009. This publication is copyright. No part may be reproduced by any process except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. 1 Keeping our water pure Chair & CEO’s Report The 2008/2009 financial year has again proved to be a difficult year for our community and our organisation. Extreme climate variability and continuing dry conditions led to bushfires and tragedy in Gippsland with lives lost, hundreds of homes and sheds destroyed and over 60,000 hectares of the catchment burnt in four major fires in January and February 2009. Managing and recovering from disasters is unfortunately becoming part of the way we have to do business in our region and we need to start planning our resources accordingly. In addition to these disasters, the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority has had to grapple with changed funding processes at both a state and national level; this has caused considerable additional work for staff across the Authority. Notwithstanding these challenges, the regional community, stakeholders, and staff have got on with their work and delivered an outstanding 93% completion rate against the proposed WGCMA Action Plan for the 2008/2009 financial year. This is a very pleasing result and, on behalf of our Board, we congratulate all those involved in delivering this outcome for the region. A revegetation site joins up with remnant vegetation one on the banks of the Lower Latrobe River 2 Chair & CEO’s Report Much of the WGCMA’s work involves developing plans and strategies CFA sought the WGCMA’s help in supervising and project managing this and providing advice, however, the community expects us to have a work which was completed under contract. Given all the other work that strong focus on delivering, and assisting them to deliver, on-ground has been completed by our operational staff, the completion of this added works that improve or maintain the health of the catchment. It gives us responsibility is an achievement that needs to be acknowledged. much pleasure to report that the WGCMA, along with our partners in Greening Australia, Trust for Nature and Landcare, has exceeded all on- With fire and flood recovery work winding back and funding for our River ground works targets for the year. Health Program reducing, we have had to review the structure of the WGCMA Operations Team. Over the past 12 months numbers in this Our Operational Team has undertaken over $5 million worth of work in group have reduced from 25 to 16 and we have changed to a project the past financial year, including over $3 million of flood and fire recovery management focus in order to respond to changes in funding that result work and over $2 million of river health work. The WGCMA’s River Health from additional allocations for disaster recovery or other government Program has seen the delivery of 100 ha of riparian revegetation, 48 km initiatives. of riparian fencing, 23 ha of remnant vegetation protection, 4 km of bed and bank stabilisation, 66 ha of exotic riparian vegetation control, 50 ha This year both the State and Australian Governments changed their of spartina control, and 496 ha of river work maintenance. Our partners investment processes and focused their business plans on Australian and added to these achievements through 399 ha of remnant protection, 145 State priorities. This lessened the importance of the Regional Catchment ha of revegetation, 66 ha of erosion control, and 350 ha of vegetation Strategy (RCS) and required us to examine our priorities to see where protection through covenants. they aligned with those detailed by the government. This caused our community some consternation and put significant pressure on programs The WGCMA’s investment in fire and flood recovery work has delivered like Landcare and Waterwatch which have both suffered large reductions 6.5 ha of debris removal, 8 structures for grade control, 10 km of stream in funding. Waterwatch will struggle to be a viable program post the bank stabilised, 58 ha of weed control, 10 ha of revegetation, 39 km of 2009/10 financial year unless additional on-going funding can be found. riparian fencing and a number of large avulsion repairs. During the year we managed an independent review of the recovery work undertaken in relation to the 2007 flood events. The review confirmed that the work completed was of a high standard and it also detailed the high priority work still remaining. These results have been used to focus the final phase of our work in this last financial year. The East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority has agreed to transfer some funds allocated to them for flood recovery to the WGCMA; these additional funds will allow for all identified high priority work to be finalised by the end of September 2009. Recovery work from the 2009 fires has yet to fully commence as we are yet to receive a final funding allocation from the State Government for this work. We have completed some initial emergency clean up work and completed a study into the dangers facing both the Traralgon and Walhalla communities should the Traralgon and Stringers Creek catchments receive large falls of rain in the coming months and in the years ahead. It is sensible to undertake preventative work in both catchments to protect assets should the creeks flood; planning the action to take will be possible when allocations are determined. A large proportion of the fires in the WGCMA’s region occurred on private land and the Country Fire Authority (CFA) had responsibility for Top: Post fire regeneration - Delburn rehabilitating the land damaged during the fire suppression phase. The Above: Flood recovery work, reparing the banks of the Macalister River 3 Chair & CEO’s Report In addition to the above, the Australian Government decided to divorce significant proportion of the Caring for Our Country regional allocation its investment process from the State investment process for 2009/10 in the 2009/10 financial year. Heart Morass is another valuable wetland and made it much more complicated. This meant we had to make two within the region and in the last twelve months we have consolidated separate funding submissions which effectively doubled the work staff work on this asset in conjunction with many local school children and our had to put into investment proposals. partners at the Williamson Foundation and Field and Game Victoria. To see the red gums regenerating in this wetland is something to behold. The continuing drought has required staff to be involved in considerable work around contingency planning for water for Melbourne and South The effective management of crown frontages has been recognised as Gippsland, with a number of bulk entitlements being reviewed in the a problem across Victoria. This year the WGCMA undertook a review South Gippsland basin. Complementing this work, we have reviewed of the issues and, along with other CMAs across the State, provided our Regional River Health Strategy and re-focused efforts on building this detail to the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE). resilience in our systems. This type of work sets the direction for how the The Department has now provided additional resources to commence WGCMA will use the offset money paid by the Melbourne water retailers tackling some of these issues. Our focus in the 2009/10 financial year for use of the Thomson Environmental Water Reserve in Melbourne’s will be on the Latrobe River. drought contingency planning. In the past three years the Latrobe River has received significant funding Protecting Corner Inlet remains a high priority for our community and we through the State Government’s Large Scale River Restoration program. have been supported in this endeavour by both the State and Australian This work has provided many benefits for this important river and we have Governments. We have, in conjunction with the Corner Inlet Steering been developing a detailed business case to justify further investment. Committee, finalised a strategic plan for the protection of the Inlet and This work has involved many stakeholders over this last financial year have commenced its implementation. This valuable asset will receive a and the case should be finalised before the end of 2009. The WGCMA’s responsibilities in responding to floodplain referrals from councils and the licensing of works on waterways continue to generate significant work for the Authority with floodplain referrals growing by 45% in the past financial year. In addition, considerable work has been done in educating the community around the requirements for obtaining a license to undertake works on waterways.
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