i Goulburn Broken Waterway Strategy 2014-2022 Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................ ii Appendix A: Partners and their roles and responsibilities in waterway management ........................................ i Appendix B: Values and threats of waterways considered in the regional priority setting process .....................v Appendix C: AVIRA Metrics / Categories to be used to identify High Value waterways. .................................. viii Appendix D: Index of Stream Condition results (1999, 2004 and 2010) and Stream States by Social Ecological System .................................................................................................................................................................. x Appendix E: High value waterways and their associated values in the Goulburn Broken catchment, by landscape ......................................................................................................................................................... xvii Appendix F: High value wetlands by Social Ecological System (landscape) .................................................... xxiii Appendix G: Priority waterways ..................................................................................................................... xxxv Appendix H - Priority wetlands ........................................................................................................................... xli Appendix I - Costings applied to strategic priorities ............................................................................................ lii Appendix J - Glossary of terms ........................................................................................................................... liii Appendix K - Acronyms ....................................................................................................................................... lvi Appendix L: List of achievements from the last strategy (Goulburn Broken River Health Strategy 2005-2013) ......................................................................................................................................................................... lviii Appendix M: Priority waterways (risk and feasibility) ........................................................................................ lix Appendix N: Receipt of comments from community (that informed the preparation of the waterway strategy) .......................................................................................................................................................................... lxii Appendix O: Opportunities and challenges – (priority management actions) ................................................. lxiii Goulburn Broken Waterway Strategy 2014-2022 Appendix A: Partners and their roles and responsibilities in waterway management Agency and purpose Roles and responsibilities for waterway management Catchment The Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority is the peak natural resource Management management body in the catchment. It develops and oversees the implementation of Authorities the Regional Catchment Strategy. (Goulburn Broken) The Authority works in partnership with the community to ensure land and water resources are protected and enhanced as well as improving the region's social wellbeing, environmental quality and productive capacity in a sustainable manner. GB CMA, as the “Caretaker of River Health”, “Manager of the Environmental Water Reserve” and “Waterway Manager” for the region, will be the lead agency for implementing the Goulburn Broken Waterway Strategy. The strategy will be implemented as a sub-strategy of the Regional Catchment Strategy, through established partnerships involving: • agencies with water management, land management or other relevant legislated responsibilities; • communities; and • other stakeholders such as non-government organisations, Landcare and other community groups. The Department of The Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) is responsible for the Environment and efficient and practical management of land, water and agricultural services. The DEPI is Primary Industries is the lead agency for the development of policy regarding water resource management responsible for and waterway management. DEPI is also responsible for other aspects of natural agriculture, fisheries, resource management that are relevant to waterways, including: forestry, public land • delivery of services at a regional level, including some services that relate to and the environment waterway management; • management of fisheries and recreational fishing in waterways to optimise economic and social value while ensuring the sustainability of resources; • management of biosecurity, including aquatic invasive species; • oversight of the catchment planning framework to promote integrated catchment management throughout Victoria; • management of biodiversity; • management of public land, including waterways and bushfire management on public land; and • improvement of agricultural productivity. DEPI is also responsible for Crown frontages in Victoria. It is responsible for their administration, including their licensing for riparian management and for grazing and ensuring compliance with licence conditions. DEPI also has a direct onground responsibility for unlicensed Crown frontages. The Environment The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria: Protection Authority • identifies the beneficial uses of water environments and the level of Victoria is an environmental quality needed to protect them through the State environmental Environmental Protection Policy (Waters of Victoria); regulator and authority • provides specific direction on the management of various activities that affect on environmental water quality; impacts. • uses mandatory and regulatory processes, such as licensing and other discretionary tools to assist in the achievement of water quality objectives; and • acts in partnership with the DEPI and regional bodies to monitor water quality and waterway condition and enables problem solving approaches and independent audits of impacts on the environment and the protection of beneficial uses. Parks Victoria manages Parks Victoria: Goulburn Broken Waterway Strategy 2014-2022 Appendix i Agency and purpose Roles and responsibilities for waterway management national, wilderness, • manages parks and conservation reserves in which many waterways are state and regional located, including national, State, wilderness, metropolitan and regional parks, parks, Melbourne’s marine national parks and sanctuaries and conservation and natural features metropolitan parks and reserves; and open space network as • creates, manages and maintains visitor sites and manages a range of assets, well as selected ports including visitor facilities and access points, piers and jetties, sporting facilities and waterways and navigation aids, many of which are associated with waterways. Transport Safety Transport Safety Victoria: Victoria is responsible • determines standards and procedures for navigation and maritime safety on all for determining inland waters, rivers, creeks, canals, lakes and reservoirs, as well as coastal standards and waters up to three nautical miles offshore; and procedures for • assists Marine Safety Act (2010) waterway managers in their duties, who are navigation and appointed by the Minister for Ports and are responsible for regulating vessel maritime safety on operations and on water activities by waterway users on selected waterways state waters under their control. Victorian The Victorian Environmental Water Holder is appointed under the Water Act 1989 to Environmental Water manage Victoria’s environmental water entitlements. The Victorian Environmental Holder Water Holder works with the waterway managers and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, to ensure environmental water entitlements are used to achieve the most efficient and effective environmental outcomes. Victorian Catchment The Victorian Catchment Management Council is appointed under the Catchment and Management Council Land Protection Act 1994and advises the Minister for Environment and Climate Change and the Minister for Water on land and water management issues. The Council reports annually on the operation of the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994and, every five years, on the environmental condition and management of Victoria’s land and water resources, through the Victorian Catchment Management Council Catchment Condition Report. Victorian Environment The Victorian Environment Assessment Council is appointed under the Victorian Assessment Council Environmental Assessment Council Act 2001. The Council conducts investigations that are requested by the Government relating to the protection and ecologically sustainable management of the environment and natural resources on public land. Essential Services The Essential Services Commission is the economic regulator of the Victorian water Commission sector appointed under the Essential Services Commission Act 2001. The Commission regulates prices and monitors service standards and market conduct of the Victorian water sector. The sector is comprised of water corporations, established under the Water Act 1989, providing bulk and retail water and waste water services to all of Victoria’s urban and rural irrigation customers. Commissioner