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Wallis Lake Estuary Management Plan 8 Relationship with other plans, strategies and studies The WLEMP is an important accompanying plan to the WLCMP, which was completed in draft form in 2001 and formally adopted in 2004. Numerous other advisory and regulatory plans feed into the WLCMP and WLEMP to form the planning framework for the maintenance and improvement of estuarine health (Figure 8.1). Sound scientific information forms the basis for these plans due to the suite of targeted scientific investigations conducted in the Lake. A brief outline of these plans and investigations can be found in section 13.1. Many of these advisory and regulatory plans were designed and implemented before the preparation of the WLCMP and WLEMP, making the Wallis Lake situation somewhat unique. Ordinarily these plans would be the outcome of recommended actions from the WLCMP and WLEMP, however the instantaneous need for management actions arising from the Wallis Lake oyster crisis in 1997 resulted in the preparation of the plans being bypassed to address issues of more immediate concern. The WLEMP was then put on hold from 1999 when funding was first obtained to await completion of the WLCMP due to a lack of resources to complete both plans simultaneously. [Plate 8.1: Cover page of the WLCMP, volume 2]. 108
Wallis Lake Estuary Management Plan MANAGEMENT RELATED SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS • Identification of urban and rural inputs to sediments in Wallis Lake • Benthic nutrient fluxes in Wallis Lake • The Wallis Lake catchment assessment – Water quality program • Nutrient tracing and performance testing of water quality for catchment management in NSW estuaries • Seagrass change assessment using satellite data for Wallis Lake • Wallis Lake estuary processes study • Floodplain management studies Scientific input to plans ADVISORY AND/OR REGULATORY PLANS AND PROGRAMS • Lower Wallamba River rivercare plan • Great Lakes waterways recreation strategy • Wallis Lake stormwater management plan • Wetland management strategy • Foreshore management plans • Darawakh drainage management plan • Healthy lakes program • Estuary general fishery management strategy • Forster/Tuncurry conservation and development strategy • Forster/Tuncurry, Wallamba River and Wallis Lake foreshore floodplain management plans Review as necessary WALLIS LAKE ESTUARY MANAGEMENT PLAN WALLIS LAKE CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN Figure 8.1: The planning framework for the maintenance and improvement of estuarine health adopted by the WLEMC. Note however that rather than existing as stand alone documents, many of these plans and strategies are integrated. 109
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