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River Murray and Lower Lakes catchment risk assessment for water quality: Results and management options Education and awareness raising on environmental issues concerning the river may be an important first step for changing public behaviours. Comprehensive public environmental awareness strategies (specifically targeting river issues) were noted to be lacking although some groups (eg Waterwatch) are active on this issue. General recommendation 10 EPA, DWLBC, councils and SAMDB NRMB to consider funding and coordinating a program to educate river community about their obligations for environmental management. Cultural environmental values 252 Status of implementation: Not started Protection of River Murray, Lower Lakes and Coorong water quality is very important to local indigenous peoples such as the Ngarrindjeri for whom the land and waters are considered a living body (Ruwe). Indigenous groups were consulted as part of the project but risks to cultural water quality values was not directly assessed. This is one area requiring further consultation and engagement in the next stage of the study. General recommendation 11 Indigenous groups are consulted on cultural environmental values of the River Murray, Lower Lakes, and Coorong. River flow Status of implementation: Not started This current report did not specifically look at river flow and its potential effect on water quality. However, improved flow regimes are viewed as essential for improving water quality and ecosystem health in the Lower Lakes and Coorong. The Lower Murray region of the river has been noted to have very low flows and similarly reduced tidal flushing currently impacts on the Coorong. Flows and/or tidal flushing must be sufficient to ensure flushing of sediment and other pollutants out of the river, lakes, Coorong system, at least on a periodic basis. The key environmental requirements for the main channel of the River Murray have been noted to be 40 GL/day for up to eight consecutive weeks on average every second year, with high flow events occurring in late spring (SAMDB NRM 2002). General recommendation 12 Efforts continued to improve flows and flushing down the river, Coorong, Lakes and Murray Mouth. Monitoring of the outcomes of these initiatives and effect of changing flows on water quality. Status of implementation: Not started
River Murray and Lower Lakes catchment risk assessment for water quality: Results and management options Risk assessment project database management A detailed database of water quality risk has been constructed as part of this project. It is imperative that this is maintained and updated as new information comes to hand. The South Australian Murray Resource Information Centre is currently being established in the Riverland to manage natural resource and other data for the region. General recommendation 13 The risk assessment project database be regularly updated and information made readily available to stakeholders. Investigation should be made into potentially housing the database at the South Australian Murray Resource Information Centre, and on mechanisms for stakeholders and the community to input and/or update risk information. Status of implementation: Not started 253
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