Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary System Management Strategy ...

EPA Report on the Peel-Harvey Progress and Compliance Report, 2003
proponent agencies, to more strongly encourage adoption of changed land management
practices, backed by appropriate incentives/disincentives to achieve outcomes acceptable
to all stakeholders, not just those within the Peel-Harvey coastal catchment (see Section
12 and Appendix 2 of this Report (the ERC report)).
ERC Recommendation C7
It is recommended that The EPA endorses the advice on Catchment Management in 1 - 7
above.
ERC Recommendation DC 1
It is recommended that monitoring should continue long enough to take account of high
runoff years and other longer term environmental variations. This monitoring should
include the following:
• nearshore bathymetry and beach profiles extending 1 km north and south of the
channel
• bathymetry of the Harvey Estuary in the vicinity of the channel
• shoreline movements using aerial photography either side of the channel
• inundation assessment
• nearshore water quality and marine habitat
• water quality within the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary
• sand bypassing operations.
ERC Recommendation PCR 1
The EPA should promote compliance reviews as a potentially positive experience for
proponents with the emphasis being on providing an opportunity to progress or improve
environmental protection and management into the future, and an opportunity for the
EPA to review its environmental objectives alongside verifying compliance.
It is recommended that compliance reviews run by the EPA should focus on examining
three areas:
a) verification of implementation of the Environmental Conditions as set out in the
Minister’s Statement, in the context of the intent of the Conditions as set out in
the EPA’s assessment report and recommendations;
b) an examination of whether the assessment of the project carried out by the EPA
was accurate in its predictions including identification of the environmental
objectives and environmental management goals; and
c) whether the proponent’s commitments and the Environmental Conditions, and
any associated legal and administrative framework to underpin management
have been successful in achieving the goals for which they were originally
designed.
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