13.2 The Wallis Lake Estuary Management Committee - Great Lakes ...

Wallis Lake Estuary Management Plan
Strategy/Outcome Actions Monitoring and performance indicator Data interpretation Target Comments Progress
Minimise the input of gross
pollutants to the Wallis
Lake estuary
W.9.1,
W.9.2,
W.9.3
Time series analysis of
standardised data.
TBD
If Wallis Lake were a surveyed site for rubbish
collected during the annual Clean Up Australia
Day, data would be available for the average
number of items collected from waterfront and
river/creek areas and this could be compared
among years.
Site coordinators would initiate rubbish surveys
when registering for their Clean Up site.
(www.cleanup.com.au/).
Data should be
standardised to the
number of tourists
visiting Wallis lake
over the reporting
period (from Visitor
Information
Centre), the
Forster/Tuncurry
population (census
data) and the
number of people
participating locally
in each annual
Clean Up Australia
Day.
Strategy/Outcome Actions Monitoring and performance indicator Data interpretation Target Comments Progress
Protect and enhance
natural wetlands
E.1.1 The inventory and assessment of wetlands to
be conducted under the Wallis Lake wetland
management strategy should be designed and
documented to allow for follow up surveys to
be conducted at regular intervals to monitor
wetland health, distribution and abundance.
TBD TBD Assessment of
wetland health
should include
attributes identified
by WetlandCare
Australia such as
connectivity,
human
disturbance, ASS,
E.1.2
Annual reporting of percentages of significant
wetland areas with high conservation and
ecosystem service value (Figure 4.5) protected
under voluntary property agreements, Property
Agreements (CMA), Voluntary Conservation
Agreements (DEC) or in public ownership.
Progress reports. 100%
and bank condition.
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