, Tullaroop Creek, Many of ’s rivers and have been modified to provide water vital for farms, homes and industry. Water Serpentine Creek, Pyramid for the environment is used to improve the health of rivers Creek, Birchs Creek and wetlands and support the plants, fish and other animals • Maintain riverbank vegetation Gunbower Creek and Forest that live, feed and breed in them. • Boost native fish by providing flows to Internationally protected site move upstream and downstream • Increase the population of Murray cod in Water for the environment also benefits communities by • Improve water quality and maintain Gunbower Creek improving conditions for fishing, camping and canoeing. healthy levels of dissolved oxygen in • Improve the health of understorey plants, Improved water quality can have economic benefits for deep pools river red gum and black box trees and urban water supply. • Provide habitat for waterbirds, frogs, turtles Barmah Forest and small-bodied fish in Gunbower Forest Hattah Lakes Internationally protected site This map shows some of the objectives we aim to achieve with environmental flows in rivers and wetlands across the Internationally protected site • Improve the health of river red gums and • Stimulate the growth of aquatic vegetation plants in wetlands state in 2021-22. in wetlands • Provide feeding and breeding habitat for For more details see the seasonal watering plan • Provide feeding and nesting habitat for • Increase growth of aquatic plants waterbirds, frogs, fish and turtles waterbirds in the river channel and lower at vewh.vic.gov.au. banks of the river • Connect floodplains to the river and • Improve the condition of river red gums maintain water quality • Stabilise the riverbank, channel and river bed • Boost populations of native fish Wimmera-Mallee wetlands and platypus • Provide watering holes for land- Ovens, King and Buffalo rivers The Victorian Environmental Water Holder recognises based native wildlife • Maintain water quality for native fish Aboriginal people as the first land and water managers • Sustain plants in and around the in the Ovens and King rivers in . We acknowledge the important contribution wetlands • Provide habitat for waterbugs made by Traditional Owners across Victoria to this year’s • Provide habitat and food for • Maintain habitat for freshwater seasonal watering plan. waterbirds, waterbugs, frogs and catfish in Mullinmur turtles

Broken River and upper • Improve water quality and habitat for Broken Creek native fish in the river and estuary • Improve condition of aquatic plants • Clear sediment build-up in the river • Encourage native fish to migrate channel to improve habitat and breed Barringgi Gadyin () • Increase productivity of the river to • Protect and increase numbers of fish, • Support breeding of platypus support aquatic life including freshwater catfish, in the Wimmera River if conditions are wet • Maintain the water quality and fill refuge Birrarung () pools for fish, waterbugs, aquatic plants and • Improve the health of native plants on the riverbank, in the crayfish in the Wimmera River, Burnt Creek river and billabongs and MacKenzie River during dry conditions • Maintain connectivity along the river to improve fish and • Provide flows for platypus in the MacKenzie platypus habitat River • Improve water quality, increasing oxygen for animals and plants that live in the waterways

Moorabool Yulluk () • Maintain aquatic plants in the river channel and vegetation on the banks • Provide flows for native fish to move and breed • Prevent de-oxygenation of Carran Carran () river pools during summer • Boost threatened native fish by providing flows to get them moving between the river and ocean to breed • Help aquatic plants in the river to grow, and disperse their seeds Glenelg River • Provide freshwater habitat for waterbirds and • Provide flows for native fish to Durt-Yowan () frogs and help wetland vegetation to grow in move upstream, downstream and Lower Barwon wetlands • Increase the health and Internationally protected site • Increase growth of native plants on the riverbank the Heyfield wetlands between the river and ocean diversity of native plants • Increase growth of threatened saltmarsh plants in to stabilise the river channel • Provide places for platypus to rest, • Boost threatened fish by Hospital Swamps and Reedy Lake • Improve in-stream habitat for native fish and breed and feed providing flows for fish to • Provide mud flats and shallow water for wading waterbugs • Maintain water quality for fish, move and breed Not to scale birds to forage and feed, and provide refuge for • Reduce salinity in the lower Latrobe River estuary waterbugs, aquatic plants and • Increase numbers of platypus other water-dependent animals waterbirds to improve the quality of water diverted to Sale • Provide habitat for native fish and allow them to Common, Dowd Morass and Heart Morass move between the wetlands and the