What does a catchment management authority do?
What does a catchment management authority do?
Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) are responsible for the integrated planning and coordination of land, water and biodiversity management in all catchment and land protection regions.
Where does the Catchment Management Authority work?
Wimmera CMA is directly accountable under the Water Act 1989 for licensing works on waterways and planning referrals on floodplains. The Authority also provides advice and information on other river health related issues including comment on farm dam applications, and input to wider environmental strategies.
What is a catchment plan?
A good catchment plan identifies the main issues within a catchment and prioritises works which will improve the catchment as a whole. This puts us in a better position to achieve Water Framework Directive (WFD) targets, as well as other environmental and social goals.
What is a regional catchment strategy?
Regional catchment strategies are the primary integrated planning framework for the management of land, water and biodiversity resources. They seek to integrate community values and regional priorities with state and federal legislation and policies.
How are catchments managed?
But over 60% of the catchments are privately owned, including 600,000 hectares of agricultural land that is essential to the NSW economy. Training – on-farm training to catchment graziers on using sustainable practices, such as increasing pasture cover, to improve water quality.
What is a catchment flood management plan?
Overview. Catchment flood management plans (CFMP’s) aim to establish flood risk management policies which will deliver sustainable flood risk management for the long term across a catchment. They typically consider all types of inland flooding: Ground water. Rivers.
What is flood catchment?
Catchment flood management plans (CFMPs) consider all types of inland flooding, from rivers, groundwater, surface water and tidal flooding. Shoreline management plans consider flooding from the sea. CFMPs also include: the likely impacts of climate change. the effects of how we use and manage the land.
Which Victorian state legislation requires catchment management authorities?
the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994
Victoria’s framework for the integrated management of catchments is established under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (the CaLP Act).
How are NSW catchments managed?
In the more than 54% of the catchments that are privately owned land or towns and regional cities, WaterNSW works together with local councils, landholders, government agencies and industry to help ensure human activities do not harm the environment that our drinking water comes from.
What is catchment runoff?
A catchment is an area of land, usually bounded by mountains, over which water flows and is collected by the natural landscape. In a catchment, all rain and run-off water eventually flows into a creek, river, lake, lagoon or the ocean.
What is natural catchment?
A catchment is an area where water is collected by the natural landscape. We use the water collected by the natural landscape to help supply water for our needs, by building dams and weirs, or tapping into groundwater. This is called the water supply system.
What are the measures to control flood?
Some of the common techniques used for flood control are the installation of rock beams, rock rip-raps, sand bags, maintenance of normal slopes with vegetation or application of soil cements on steeper slopes and construction or expansion of drainage. Other methods include dykes, dams, retention basins or detention.
