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

Wallis Lake Estuary Management Plan
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13 APPENDICES
13.1 A summary of existing plans, strategies and studies related to the WLEMP ................................ 118
13.2 The Wallis Lake Estuary Management Committee ....................................................................... 128
13.3 Submissions and consultations ..................................................................................................... 129
13.4 Letter to landholders...................................................................................................................... 131
13.5 Issues raised during public meeting and with Forster LALC ......................................................... 132
13.6 Background to the Wallis Lake region........................................................................................... 133
13.7 Best practice guidelines for human - dolphin interactions ............................................................. 136
13.8 Considerations for assessing boat launching facilities .................................................................. 137
Figures
Figure 1.1 The Estuary Management Process.................................................................................................... 2
Figure 2.1 The Wallis Lake Estuary .................................................................................................................... 6
Figure 2.3 Management area A: Island/entrance area........................................................................................ 9
Figure 2.4 Management area B: Wallis Lake Water Body ................................................................................ 11
Figure 2.5 Management area C1: Muddy Creek............................................................................................... 13
Figure 2.6 Management area C2: Pipers Bay, Pipers Creek and Forster Keys................................................ 14
Figure 2.7 Management area D: Wallamba River............................................................................................. 16
Figure 2.8 Management area E: Coolongolook and Wang Wauk Rivers.......................................................... 18
Figure 2.9 Management area F: Wallingat River .............................................................................................. 19
Figure 4.1 Locations for creek rehabilitation ..................................................................................................... 24
Figure 4.2 Sites for baseline water quality testing............................................................................................. 31
Figure 4.3 Sites of monthly water samples for faecal coliform testing by NSW Food Authority........................ 33
Figure 4.4 Sites of monthly phytoplankton sampling by NSW food Authority ................................................... 33
Figure 4.5 SEPP14 and other wetland areas of Wallis Lake with high conservation value .............................. 39
Figure 4.6 Shallow seagrass beds to consider including in ‘proceed with care’ zone....................................... 41
Figure 4.7 Sites of Chaetomorpha sp blooms in Pipers Creek and Microdictyon sp blooms
in Breckenridge Channel ................................................................................................................. 45
Figure 4.8 Location of sites for the seagrass monitoring program.................................................................... 47
Figure 4.9 Sites of fishways to be installed and site of fish kills in the upper Wallamba River ......................... 51
Figure 4.10 Marine Protected Areas in NSW and boundaries of the Manning Bioregion for
the Bioregional Assessment............................................................................................................ 52
Figure 4.11 Conservation zonings 7a and 7b on the islands and Wallis Lake foreshores.................................. 64
Figure 4.12 Areas on islands experiencing considerable erosion....................................................................... 66
Figure 4.13 Location of foreshore reserves ........................................................................................................ 68
Figure 4.14 Informal foreshore road at Green Point ........................................................................................... 72
Figure 4.15 Location of the Green Cathedral...................................................................................................... 79
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Suggested locations for signage identifying islands and for additional channel
markers ........................................................................................................................................... 81
Area to restrict waterskiing, wakeboarding and other power boat recreational
activities to on the Wallamba River ................................................................................................. 83
Example of an educational diagram illustrating the ecological importance of
Seagrass beds as a food source and as habitat for juvenile fish .................................................... 89
Figure 6.1 Schematic diagram of the artificial wetlands on the K-leg drainage line........................................ 100
Figure 6.2 Sites of annual shellfish samples for pesticide and metals testing by NSW Food Authority.......... 100
Figure 8.1 The planning framework for the maintenance and improvement of estuarine health .................... 109
Figure 9.1
Legislation, policies and conventions that make up the natural resource planning
framework and can be used as tools to implement the WLEMP and WLCMP.............................. 110
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