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Rivers Monitoring and Evaluation Plan V1.0 2020
i Rivers Monitoring and Evaluation Plan V1.0 2020 Contents Acknowledgement to Country ................................................................................................ 1 Contributors ........................................................................................................................... 1 Abbreviations and acronyms .................................................................................................. 2 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3 Background and context ........................................................................................................ 3 About the Rivers MEP ............................................................................................................. 7 Part A: PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................... 18 Habitat ................................................................................................................................. 24 Vegetation ............................................................................................................................ 29 Engaged communities .......................................................................................................... 45 Community places ................................................................................................................ 54 Water for the environment .................................................................................................. -
Victoria Harbour Docklands Conservation Management
VICTORIA HARBOUR DOCKLANDS CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN VICTORIA HARBOUR DOCKLANDS Conservation Management Plan Prepared for Places Victoria & City of Melbourne June 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi PROJECT TEAM xii 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background and brief 1 1.2 Melbourne Docklands 1 1.3 Master planning & development 2 1.4 Heritage status 2 1.5 Location 2 1.6 Methodology 2 1.7 Report content 4 1.7.1 Management and development 4 1.7.2 Background and contextual history 4 1.7.3 Physical survey and analysis 4 1.7.4 Heritage significance 4 1.7.5 Conservation policy and strategy 5 1.8 Sources 5 1.9 Historic images and documents 5 2.0 MANAGEMENT 7 2.1 Introduction 7 2.2 Management responsibilities 7 2.2.1 Management history 7 2.2.2 Current management arrangements 7 2.3 Heritage controls 10 2.3.1 Victorian Heritage Register 10 2.3.2 Victorian Heritage Inventory 10 2.3.3 Melbourne Planning Scheme 12 2.3.4 National Trust of Australia (Victoria) 12 2.4 Heritage approvals & statutory obligations 12 2.4.1 Where permits are required 12 2.4.2 Permit exemptions and minor works 12 2.4.3 Heritage Victoria permit process and requirements 13 2.4.4 Heritage impacts 14 2.4.5 Project planning and timing 14 2.4.6 Appeals 15 LOVELL CHEN i 3.0 HISTORY 17 3.1 Introduction 17 3.2 Pre-contact history 17 3.3 Early European occupation 17 3.4 Early Melbourne shipping and port activity 18 3.5 Railways development and expansion 20 3.6 Victoria Dock 21 3.6.1 Planning the dock 21 3.6.2 Constructing the dock 22 3.6.3 West Melbourne Dock opens -
Hail and Farewell! an Evocation of Gippsland He Has Brought to Life Gippsland and Its People
CHESTER EAGLE HAIL and Hail and Farewell FAREWELL! Gippsland is an area unique in Australia; backed by mountains, bounded by the sea, cut off from the main Sydney-Melbourne axis An Evocation of Gippsland of Australian history, it lacks those starker elements of the Australian mainland which have captivated our artists and the eyes of visitors. Yet, in many ways, Gippsland still embodies the nineteenth-century Chester Eagle Australia celebrated by those who search our past and present for a national ethos. It seems to have a rare capacity to absorb change without altering its basic nature. AND FAREWELL HAIL In 1956, Chester Eagle was sent to Gippsland, to Bairnsdale—a town the existence of which he was only dimly aware—as a Victorian Education Department appointee to the local technical school. On arrival, following initial dislike, he felt challenged, stayed twelve years, and 'fell in love' with the place'. In Hail and Farewell! An Evocation of Gippsland he has brought to life Gippsland and its people. History, main-street gossip, bar talk and daily incident are combined with affectionate portrayals of local identities and reverential descriptions of the divine landscape. The place and its people live and breathe in its pages—the lean-to scoreboards, stump carvings, salmon trawlers and towering trees; the post-pioneering villages and their inhabitants—earthy, insular, and all acutely aware of each other. All are set down by an author who is deeply committed to his subject, yet has the necessary detachment to see it clearly and portray it with a sympathetic but wholly objective eye. -
Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan
Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Yellingbo Conservation Area Draft 10 Year Plan Approved by the Yellingbo Conservation Area Coordinating Committee 7 - 9 Symes Road, Woori Yallock VIC 3139 PO Box 32, Woori Yallock VIC 3139 Your submission is invited in response to this plan This draft plan for the Yellingbo Conservation Area is now released for public comment (August 2019). Interested individuals, community organisations, groups and agencies are invited to make written submissions by close of business on Sunday, 7th October 2018 A series of consultation questions are included throughout this plan. These are aimed at helping the reader focus on providing feedback. The questions are the same as those on the Engage Victoria website; answers can be submitted through the Engage Victoria website or via a paper copy of the survey. A survey is available online at: https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea All submissions will be carefully considered and taken into account as the final plan is being prepared for approval. The names of people and groups making submissions will be published in the final plan unless comments are marked as CONFIDENTIAL when submitted. Submissions can also be lodged online at: https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea The survey can be downloaded from https://engage.vic.gov.au/yellingboconservationarea and mailed to: Yellingbo Conservation Area Submissions Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Private Bag 15 Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre Victoria 3156 Or emailed to: [email protected] -
Central Region
Section 3 Central Region 49 3.1 Central Region overview .................................................................................................... 51 3.2 Yarra system ....................................................................................................................... 53 3.3 Tarago system .................................................................................................................... 58 3.4 Maribyrnong system .......................................................................................................... 62 3.5 Werribee system ................................................................................................................. 66 3.6 Moorabool system .............................................................................................................. 72 3.7 Barwon system ................................................................................................................... 77 3.7.1 Upper Barwon River ............................................................................................... 77 3.7.2 Lower Barwon wetlands ........................................................................................ 77 50 3.1 Central Region overview 3.1 Central Region overview There are six systems that can receive environmental water in the Central Region: the Yarra and Tarago systems in the east and the Werribee, Maribyrnong, Moorabool and Barwon systems in the west. The landscape Community considerations The Yarra River flows west from the Yarra Ranges -
NPWS Annual Report 2000-2001 (PDF
Annual report 2000-2001 NPWS mission NSW national Parks & Wildlife service 2 Contents Director-General’s foreword 6 3 Conservation management 43 Working with Aboriginal communities 44 Overview 8 Joint management of national parks 44 Mission statement 8 Performance and future directions 45 Role and functions 8 Outside the reserve system 46 Partners and stakeholders 8 Voluntary conservation agreements 46 Legal basis 8 Biodiversity conservation programs 46 Organisational structure 8 Wildlife management 47 Lands managed for conservation 8 Performance and future directions 48 Organisational chart 10 Ecologically sustainable management Key result areas 12 of NPWS operations 48 Threatened species conservation 48 1 Conservation assessment 13 Southern Regional Forest Agreement 49 NSW Biodiversity Strategy 14 Caring for the environment 49 Regional assessments 14 Waste management 49 Wilderness assessment 16 Performance and future directions 50 Assessment of vacant Crown land in north-east New South Wales 19 Managing our built assets 51 Vegetation surveys and mapping 19 Buildings 51 Wetland and river system survey and research 21 Roads and other access 51 Native fauna surveys and research 22 Other park infrastructure 52 Threat management research 26 Thredbo Coronial Inquiry 53 Cultural heritage research 28 Performance and future directions 54 Conservation research and assessment tools 29 Managing site use in protected areas 54 Performance and future directions 30 Performance and future directions 54 Contributing to communities 55 2 Conservation planning -
Environmental Guidelines for River Management Works
ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES FOR RIVER MANAGEMENT WORKS FOR THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON RIVERS AND CATCHMENTS 8571(F1) Published for the Standing Committee on Rivers and Catchments by the Department of Conservation & Environment Edited by Georgina Katsantoni Designed and Typeset by Dead Set, Fitzroy Printed by Victorian Government Printing Office ISBN 07306 2062 X © 1990 GUIDELINES Gu IDELINES FOREWORD INTRODUCTION TO RIVER MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY 1 RIVER MORPHOLOGY 1 RIVER ECOLOGY 6 GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES 11 STREAM MORPHOLOGY 11 PROTECTING THE STREAM ENVIRONMENT 12 RECREATION 14 GUIDELINES Guidelines Foreword The Department of Conservation and Environment is involved in river management activities throughout Victoria. Most river management works are undertaken by statutory river management authorities which receive funding through the Office of Water Resources. The Department recognizes its responsibility to ensure that stream works take adequate steps to protect or enhance the aquatic and streamside environment. This report is one in a series prepared for the Standing Committee on Rivers and Catchments to assist government agencies and other authorities involved in river management. It provides a basic introduction to river morphology and ecology and describes the environmental effects of river management works. It also brings together a number of case studies and suggests ways in which major types of river management works should be carried out to protect stream environments. Horrie Poussard Convenor Standing Committee on Rivers and Catchments GUIDELINES Introduction to River Morphology and Ecology When Europeans settled in Victoria less than River morphology two centuries ago, these natural instabilities were This introduction to river morphology briefly regarded as incompatible with the way the land was describes and explains the processes which have to be used. -
Atittt Qtuuuri!. What Are the Estimated Costs of the Pro Posed Pipe-Lines? Wednesday, September 20, 1967
238 Municipalities. [COUNC~.] Municipalities. According to leading world geolo The Hon. R. J. HAMER (Minister gists, the strata of the structure are for Local Government) .-The equal to any of the major finds any answers are- where in the world. (a) Yes. I agree with Sir Colin Syme and (b) No; I am informed that none of the authorities approached mentioned this as a the management of Esso-B.H.P. that consideration, nor did Mr. Walls raise it. this find has still to be proved as to He was concerned with the problems of over-all capacity. This will be done arranging local government borrowings on fairly soon. If these finds were dis an annual basis and the task entailed locating lending authorities with the neces covered anywhere else in the world sary funds available. the people would be as excited as we There is no evidence of any lack of con are. I confirm that I made the state fidence in municipal borrowing. During ment. It is a prophesy based on in 1966-67, municipalities in Victoria, other formation that is available to every than the City of Melbourne, raised loans totalling $22,933,000. This was $1,451,000 body, and I believe it is an assess more than the previous year's total of ment that all optimists in this country $21,482,000. For the first two months of would be pleased to pronounce. the current financial year, loans approved for municipalities total $4,800,000. This is The SPEAKER (the Hon. Vernon almost double the amount approved in the Christie).-In reply to the honorable first two months of last financial year. -
2019-20 Annual Stream Flow Management Plan Report
2020-21 Annual Stream Flow Management Plan Report Annual report for Melbourne Waters Stream Flow Management Plans (SFMP’s): Hoddles Creek, Little Yarra and Don Rivers, Olinda Creek, Plenty River, Steels, Pauls and Dixons Creeks, Stringybark Creek, Woori Yallock Creek. September 2021 Melbourne Water is owned by the Victorian Government. We manage Melbourne’s water supply catchments, remove and treat most of Melbourne’s sewage, and manage rivers and creeks and major drainage systems throughout the Port Phillip and Westernport region. Forward Melbourne Water is pleased to present the amalgamated Annual Report for the Hoddles Creek, Little Yarra and Don Rivers, Olinda Creek, Plenty River, Steels, Pauls and Dixons Creeks, Stringybark Creek, and Woori Yallock Creek Water Supply Protection Area Stream Flow Management Plans (the Plans) for the 2020-21 water year. Melbourne Water is responsible for the implementation, administration and enforcement of the Plans which were approved by the Minister administering the Water Act 1989 (Vic). This report has been prepared and submitted to the Minister for Water in accordance with section 32C of the Water Act 1989 (Vic). This report provides an overview of the surface water management activities administered under each Plan during the 2020/21 water year. A copy of this report is available on the Melbourne Water website www.melbournewater.com.au 2 2020-21 Annual Stream Flow Management Plan Report | Annual report for Melbourne Waters Stream Flow Management Plans (SFMP’s): Hoddles Creek, Little Yarra and Don Rivers, Olinda Creek, Plenty River, Steels, Pauls and Dixons Creeks, Stringybark Creek, Woori Yallock Creek. Executive Summary Melbourne Water is responsible for managing 1,813 surface water diverters in the Yarra catchment, parts of the lower Maribyrnong River and some creeks in the western catchments. -
NSW Bushfire Inquiry
colong No. 280| October 2020 bulletin NSW Bushfire NSW Bushfire Inquiry Inquiry • 1 Kosciuszko under attack BY KEITH MUIR from multiple fronts • 2 AN any positives come out of last summer’s calamitous Message from the bushfires? The NSW Bushfire Chair • 2 Inquiry report’s 466 pages Cand 76 recommendations offer hope Howl of the wild – that some bushfire problems can get better – except action on climate The importance change. That wasn’t the inquiry’s job, of dingoes to but they did their best. They examined the evidence and made it clear that wilderness • 3 climate change was a key factor and that’s why fires are getting worse. Whatever happened to Citing extreme weather on top of Tim Cadman? • 4 widespread drought, the report tacitly rejects the simplistic and eco-phobic mantra of “no fuel, no fire”. But like Economic Research many shuffling zombie ideas this one Validates Tourist Boom will never die, no matter how many times it gets a scientific stake through for Lithgow • 5 the heart. The inquiry was of course focused ‘Nature Needs Half’ on the human angle, but how does it Above: Looking into Blue Gum forest fire damage from Lockleys Pylon. needs both science and stack up on environment and natural Photo by Harry Burkitt values, which are inseparable from fire? ecological ethics • 5 Importantly, it didn’t come up with believes NPWS fire expertise and ecological risks of more fire into focus. anything stupid, like indiscriminate bushland knowledge is critical, and Species loss and structural changes It’s too late for Juukan burning with hectare targets. -
Map A: Yellingbo Investigation Final Healesville Sanctuary Maroondah Hwy
2530000 2540000 2550000 2560000 Sugarloaf Y arra Reservoir R ive r Map A: Yellingbo investigation final Healesville Sanctuary Maroondah Hwy r e iv recommendations for public land use R A2 Coranderrk a r k Nature r Cre r e a Conservation e Y g Reserve Ba d Donn Legend a Buan C6 Yarra River - Badger Creek g R Streamside d Reserve Public land use category Badger Creek Yarra Ranges National Park d Bushland National park and state park R Reserve p 1 Strin u A Nature conservation reserve gyb R a rk e C e r B Trust for Nature protected area e W e o k 0 o 0 1 0 0 0 K 0 C Natural features reserve 0 - 0 2 2 4 e r 4 l 2 l e 2 i Killara Rd v - Natural and scenic features reserve, v i s e R bushland reserve, streamside reserve l a COLDSTREAM e n H o - Stream frontage (including beds and banks) D GRUYERE A1 State Emblems Nature Conservation - Other natural features reserve Reserve d R D Services and utilities area a i r o 2 t c k - Road, railway i d V e R e r t d in - Hospitals, public offices, justice C o R P Dee River n s k Streamside Reserve d o W c - Cemeteries a o D o l r Woori Yallock bu o l r to W a Bushland n - Water and sewerage services Y Reserve - C5 Woori Yallock Creek MILLGROVE i r Lilydale-Warburton Streamside o D alry R - Other services and utilities area LILYDALE Rail Trail Reserve o d Maroo Y WARBURTON nda W a h r Hwy ra E Community use area R r i e Picnic Hill v iv e arra R Bushland Reserve r Y - Parkland and garden Lilydale E1 Haining Lake Park C1 Yarra River WESBURN - Recreation area and rail trail Streamside C1 Yarra River Reserve -
Reducing the Impact of Road Crossings on Aquatic Habitat in Coastal Waterways – Southern Rivers, Nsw
REDUCING THE IMPACT OF ROAD CROSSINGS ON AQUATIC HABITAT IN COASTAL WATERWAYS – SOUTHERN RIVERS, NSW REPORT TO THE NEW SOUTH WALES ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST Published by NSW Department of Primary Industries. © State of New South Wales 2006. This publication is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in an unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal use or for non-commercial use within your organisation provided due credit is given to the author and publisher. To copy, adapt, publish, distribute or commercialise any of this publication you will need to seek permission from the Manager Publishing, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Orange, NSW. DISCLAIMER The information contained in this publication is based on knowledge and understanding at the time of writing (May 2006). However, because of advances in knowledge, users are reminded of the need to ensure that information upon which they rely is up to date and to check the currency of the information with the appropriate officer of NSW Department of Primary Industries or the user‘s independent adviser. This report should be cited as: NSW Department of Primary Industries (2005) Reducing the impact of road crossings on aquatic habitat in coastal waterways – Southern Rivers, NSW. Report to the New South Wales Environmental Trust. NSW Department of Primary Industries, Flemington, NSW. ISBN 0 7347 1700 8 Cover photo: Causeway with excessive headloss over Wadbilliga River on Wadbilliga Road (Tuross Catchment). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Stream connectivity and habitat diversity are critical components of healthy rivers. Many fish have evolved to be reliant on a variety of different habitat types throughout their life cycle.