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Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Publications and resources

 

Current Commonwealth Environmental Water publications are listed below. To view previous versions or archived publications, visit: Environment Publications Archive.

2022-23 Water Management Plan

  • Water Management Plan 2022-23
  • Water Management Plan 2022-23 Summary Brochures

2021-22 Water Management Plan

  • Water Management Plan 2021-22
  • Water Management Plan 2021-22 Summary Brochures

2020-21 Water Management Plan

  • Water Management Plan 2020-21
  • Water Management Plan 2020-21 Summary Brochures

2019-20 Portfolio Management Plans

  • Planning approach
  • Barwon-Darling 2019-20
  • Border Rivers 2019-20
  • Gwydir Valley 2019-20
  • Lachlan River 2019-20
  • Lower Murray-Darling Basin 2019-20
  • Macquarie River Valley 2019-20
  • Mid-Murray Region 2019-20
  • Murrumbidgee River Valley 2019-20
  • Namoi River Valley 2019-20
  • Northern Intersecting Streams 2019-20
  • Victorian Rivers 2019-20

2018-19 Portfolio Management Plans

  • Planning approach
  • Barwon-Darling
  • Border Rivers
  • Gwydir River Valley
  • Lachlan River Valley
  • Lower Murray-Darling Region
  • Macquarie River Valley
  • Mid-Murray Region
  • Murrumbidgee River Valley
  • Namoi River Valley
  • Northern Intersecting Streams
  • Victorian Rivers

2017-18 Snapshots: Restoring and protecting the Murray–Darling Basin

  • Restoring and protecting the Border Rivers 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Gwydir River Valley 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Lachlan River Valley 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Lower Murray-Darling 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Macquarie River Valley 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Mid-Murray Rivers 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Murrumbidgee River 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Namoi River Valley 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Unregulated Rivers of the Northern Basin 2017-18
  • Restoring and protecting the Victorian Rivers 2017-18

Agreements

  • Agreements on the use of Commonwealth environmental water

Business plans

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office 2013-14 Business Plan
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Business Improvement Plan - June 2018

CEWO Communication and Engagement Approach

  • Our Communication and Engagement Approach - 2021

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder correspondence

  • Response to Senator Rex Patrick (PDF - 3.01 MB) | (DOCX - 46.33 KB) - March 2020

Criteria

  • Criteria for assessing options for Commonwealth environmental water use

Environmental watering event updates

  • 2021-22 Gwydir updates
  • 2022-23 Gwydir updates
  • 2018-19 Gwydir catchment updates
  • 2018-19 Macquarie catchment Updates
  • 2020-21 Macquarie River Valley Updates
  • 2018-19 Namoi catchment Updates
  • 2020-21 Peel Catchment Updates
  • 2021 Lower Darling-Baaka spring fish flow
  • 2021-22 Barwon-Darling Updates
  • 2021-22 Lower Balonne Updates
  • 2022-23 Lower Balonne Updates
  • 2021-22 Macquarie River Valley Updates
  • 2022-23 Macquarie River Valley Updates
  • Barwon-Darling Connectivity Flow 2021
  • Barwon Darling Water Quality during the Northern Fish Flow March-August 2019
  • Final Report on the Northern Connectivity Event (April – July 2018)
  • Gwydir recovery flows
  • Gwydir refuge pool flow 2020
  • Gwydir valley river refuge pool flow
  • Lowbidgee water delivery update 2020
  • Lower Baaka Spring Flow 2020-21
  • Lower Balonne flow 2020
  • Lower Balonne flow 2021
  • Macquarie River Valley: 2017–18 water use
  • Macquarie River Valley: 2018–19 water use
  • Macquarie River Valley: 2019–20 water use
  • Murrumbidgee water delivery update 2021
  • Namoi River Valley: 2018–19 water use
  • Northern Rivers connectivity event updates
  • Northern Rivers - Northern fish flow
  • Northern Waterhole Top-up
  • The Southern Spring Flow 2019
  • The Southern Spring Flow 2020

Environmental Water Knowledge and Research

  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Synthesis Report - 2019
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Fish Theme Research Report - 2019
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Food Webs Theme Research Report - 2019
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Vegetation Theme Research Report - 2019
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Waterbird Theme Research Report - 2019
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Annual Research Plan 2016-17
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Annual Research Plan 2017-18
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Annual Research Plan 2018-19
  • Murray–Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Multi-Year Research Plan and Addendum
  • Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge and Research Project: Selection of priority research questions and sites

Fact sheets

  • Achieving Ecological Outcomes for Black Box Vegetation - 2018
  • Carryover of Commonwealth environmental water from 2012-13 into 2013-14 - Northern NSW
  • Carryover of Commonwealth environmental water from 2012-13 into 2013-14 - Northern Victoria
  • Carryover of Commonwealth environmental water from 2012-13 into 2013-14 - NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee
  • Commonwealth environmental water and the Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Fact sheet
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water helps to Maintain River health in the Murray River - Fact sheet
  • Commonwealth environmental water latest facts
  • Commonwealth overland flow licences Lower Balonne
  • Connecting the Northern Rivers - Fact sheet
  • Continuing to rebuild waterbird habitat at Narran Lakes (Dharriwaa)
  • Early results from environmental watering in Colligen Creek - Fact sheet
  • Healthy Rivers, Healthy Communities. A pocket guide to water for the environment
  • Looking after Toorale’s wildlife and plants
  • Managing Environmental Water in the Barwon-Darling system - 2020
  • Managing the Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio - Fact sheet
  • Many Hands Make Hardyheads
  • The mighty mussel - Protecting populations for the future - Fact sheet - 2022
  • Northern Fish Flow Fact Sheet
  • Planning and Delivering Water for the Environment
  • Rebuilding waterbird habitat – Narran Lakes
  • Southern Spring Flow Fact Sheet
  • Supporting waterbirds at Narran Lakes (Dharriwaa)
  • Trade Infographic Fact sheet
  • Usage and carryover summary 2012-21

Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring Evaluation and Research Program: Basin Scale Evaluation and Research Plan
  • Edward/Kolety-Wakool Flow Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Project: Werai Forest Research Report 2022
  • Edward/Kolety-Wakool System MER Program Quarterly Outcomes Newsletters - 2019 to current
  • Flow-MER Basin-scale Annual Report 2020
  • Foundation Report Update 2020 - Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program
  • Foundation Report Update 2021 - Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program
  • Goulburn MER Quarterly Outcomes Newsletters - 2019 to current
  • Gwydir MER Program Newsletters - 2019 to current
  • Lachlan MER Program Quarterly Reporting - 2019 to current
  • Lower Murray MER Quarterly Outcomes Newsletters - 2019 to current
  • Lower Murray Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plan (2019–2022) - 2019
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plan - Goulburn River - 2019
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program - Lachlan River - 2019
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plan - Edward-Kolety-Wakool System - 2019
  • Murrumbidgee MER Quarterly Outcomes Newsletters and Field Reports - 2019 to current
  • Murrumbidgee River System - Category 3 waterbird breeding monitoring summary report July 2021 - 2021
  • Murrumbidgee Selected Area Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plan - 2019
  • Warrego-Darling MER Project Newsletters - 2019 to current
  • 2019–20 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water – reports and supporting documents

MER Selected Area Annual Reports

  • 2019-20 Edward-Kolety-Wakool River System Annual Reports
  • 2019-20 Goulburn MER Annual Report
  • 2020-21 Goulburn MER Annual Report
  • 2019-20 Gwydir MER Annual Report
  • 2020-21 Gwydir River Annual Summary Report
  • 2019-20 Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers MER Annual Report
  • 2020-21 Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Annual Summary Report
  • 2019-20 Lachlan MER Annual Reports
  • 2020-21 Lachlan MER Annual Reports
  • 2019-20 Lower Murray MER Annual Reports
  • 2020-21 Lower Murray Annual Reports
  • 2019-20 Murrumbidgee MER Annual Reports
  • 2020-21 Murrumbidgee MER Annual Reports

Newsletters

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Winter 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Summer 2016-17
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Spring 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Autumn 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Summer 2015-16
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Update - Spring 2015

Operating frameworks

  • A Framework for Determining Commonwealth Environmental Water Use
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water - Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Framework
    • Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Logic and Rationale Document
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Trading Framework - November 2016
  • The Environmental Water Outcomes Framework - 2013

Outcomes

  • Macquarie River Valley water use history 2009-20
  • Northern Basin 2019–20 Summary
  • Northern Basin 2020–21 Summary
  • Northern Basin 2021–22 Summary
  • Restoring Our Rivers: The Pulse 2015-16
  • Restoring our Rivers
  • Improved outcomes for native fish, birds, frogs and habitat from environmental watering: 2014-15 Outcomes Snapshot
  • Monitored Outcomes 2013-14
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office 2012-13 Outcomes Report
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office 2011-12 Outcomes Report
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water 2010-11 Outcomes Report
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water 2009-10 Outcomes Report
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water 2008-09 Outcomes Report

Policy statements

  • Blue-green algae and Commonwealth Environmental Water
  • Carp in the Murray-Darling Basin and Commonwealth environmental water
  • Senate Select Committee Inquiry into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Supplementary submission by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder

Posters

  • A decade of water for the environment in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2018

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office and Murray-Darling Basin Authority presented a poster on the classification project and its potential applications at the 2014 International River Symposium.

  • Classifying Aquatic Ecosystems in the Murray-Darling Basin (PDF - 1.8 MB)

Review of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder

During 2017, an independent review was commissioned and undertaken by the then Commonwealth Environmental Holder, Mr David Papps, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Office’s operations and business processes, which support the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s management of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings. The Review was finalised in November 2017 and the internal response was approved in January 2018.

Report

  • Review of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s operations and business processes - 2017

Response

  • Response to the review of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s operations and business processes - 2018

Reports

  • Independent advice on the management of the Commonwealth water holdings in the Goulburn catchment - 2022
  • Reporting requirements for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder

Long Term Intervention Monitoring Basin-scale Evaluation

  • 2018-19 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water - report and appendices
  • 2017-18 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water - report and appendices
  • 2016-17 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water - report and appendices
  • 2015-16 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water - report and appendices
  • 2014-15 Basin-scale evaluation of Commonwealth environmental water - report and appendices

Long Term Intervention Monitoring Basin Matter foundation reports

  • Foundation Report Update 2021 - Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program
  • Foundation Report Update 2020 - Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program
  • Aggregation of Selected Area biodiversity outcomes (biodiversity) - 2019
  • Ecosystem diversity - 2019
  • Fish - 2019
  • Hydrology - 2019
  • Stream Metabolism and Water Quality - 2019
  • Vegetation Diversity - 2019

Monitoring reports

  • Commonwealth Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Stage 1 Mid-Term Review and Evaluation - 2018
  • Improved outcomes for native fish, birds, frogs and habitat from environmental watering: 2014-15 Outcomes Snapshot - 2016

Edward-Kolety-Wakool river system

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Edward-Kolety-Wakool River System, 2018-19 Annual Report - 2020
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Edward-Wakool River System Selected Area Report 2017-18 - 2018
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Edward-Wakool Selected Area Evaluation Report, 2016-17 - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Edward-Wakool Selected Area Evaluation Report, 2015-16 - 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Edward-Wakool Selected Area Technical and Synthesis Reports, 2014-15 - 2015
  • Monitoring the ecosystem responses to Commonwealth environmental water delivered to the Edward-Wakool river system, 2013-14 - Final report - 2014
  • Monitoring the effects of environmental flows on hypoxic blackwater in the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers - December 2013

Goulburn/Broken

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Goulburn River Selected Area Report 2018–19 - 2020
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Goulburn River Selected Area evaluation report 2017-18 - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Goulburn River Selected Area evaluation report 2016-17 - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Goulburn River Selected Area evaluation report 2015-16 - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Goulburn River Selected Area evaluation report 2014-15 - 2015
  • Monitoring and reporting on the ecological outcomes of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in the lower Goulburn River and Broken Creek in 2013/14 - 2015

Gwydir

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Gwydir River System Selected Area Five Year Evaluation Report - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Gwydir River System Selected Area – 2017-18 Annual Evaluation Report - 2018
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Gwydir River System Selected Area – 2016-17 Evaluation Report - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Gwydir River System Selected Area – 2015-16 Evaluation Report - 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Gwydir River System Selected Area – 2014-15 Evaluation Report - 2015
  • Monitoring the ecological response of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in 2013-14 in the Gwydir River system - 2015

Junction of the Warrego and Darling Rivers

  • Aquatic fauna use of the Warrego River Western Floodplain, Summer 2017 - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Selected Area; Annual Evaluation Report - 2015
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Selected Area; Annual Evaluation Report 2016-17 - 2018
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Selected Area 2015-16 Evaluation Report - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Selected Area – 2017-18 Evaluation Report - 2018
  • Report onto the Warrego River flow into the Darling: April - June 2019 - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers Selected Area – Five Year Evaluation Report - 2019

Lachlan

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Lower Lachlan River System 2018-19 Annual Report - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Lower Lachlan River System 2017-18 Annual Report - 2018
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Lower Lachlan River System 2016-17 Annual Report - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Lower Lachlan river system 2015-16 Synthesis Report - 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Lower Lachlan river system Selected Area 2014-15 Annual Monitoring and Evaluation Report - 2015

Long Term Intervention Project Quarterly Progress Reports

  • December 2014
  • March 2015
  • June 2015
  • September 2015
  • December 2015
  • March 2016
  • June 2016
  • September 2016
  • December 2016
  • March 2017
  • June 2017
  • September 2017
  • December 2017
  • March 2018
  • June 2018
  • September 2018
  • December 2018
  • March 2019
  • June 2019

Macquarie

  • High resolution monitoring of waterbird colonies in the Macquarie Marshes final report - 2017
  • Lower Macquarie Catchment: Temporary Water Monitoring 2017
  • Macquarie Marshes colonial waterbird reproductive success monitoring 2022
  • Making the Connection: Designing, delivering and monitoring flows between catchments
  • Short-term intervention monitoring of a fish community response to an environmental flow in the mid and lower Macquarie River: 2014-15 watering year - 2015
  • Waterbird movements and breeding success in the Macquarie Marshes final report - 2017

​Murray

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Lower Murray River 2014-19 - 2020
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Lower Murray River 2017-18 - 2019
  • Long-Term Intervention Monitoring of the Ecological Responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water Delivered to the Lower Murray River Selected Area in 2016/17 - 2018
  • Long-Term Intervention Monitoring of the Ecological Responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water Delivered to the Lower Murray River Selected Area in 2015/16 - 2017
  • Long-Term Intervention Monitoring for the Ecological Responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water Delivered to the Lower Murray River Selected Area in 2014/15 - 2016
  • Monitoring ecological response to Commonwealth environmental water delivered to the Lower Murray River in 2013-14 - Final Report - 2016

​Murrumbidgee

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Murrumbidgee River System Summary and Technical reports 2014-19 - 2020
  • Native and invasive fish dispersal, spawning and trophic dynamics during a managed river-floodplain connection - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Murrumbidgee River System Summary and Technical reports 2014-18 - 2019
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Murrumbidgee River System evaluation report 2014-17 - 2017
  • Monitoring of waterbird, invertebrate and nutrient responses to environmental water delivery in the Lowbidgee floodplain in 2015-16 and 2016-17 - 2017
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project Murrumbidgee River System evaluation report 2014-16 - 2016
  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Office long-term intervention monitoring program Murrumbidgee River system Selected Area, 2014-15 Synthesis report - 2016
  • Monitoring the ecological response of Commonwealth environmental water delivered in 2013-14 to the Murrumbidgee River system Final Report - 2014

Technical reports

  • A comparative assessment of event-based mechanisms for providing water to the Narran Lakes - 2017
  • Aquatic Habitat Mapping to Inform Water Management
    • Mapping the Barwon River - Mungindi to Walgett: Aquatic Habitat Mapping to Inform Water Management - 2020
    • Mapping the Dumaresq: Aquatic Habitat Mapping to Inform Water Management - 2018
    • Mapping the Macintyre River – Macintyre-Dumaresq Confluence to Mungindi: Aquatic Habitat Mapping to Inform Water Management - 2021
  • Assessment of Murray cod recruitment to the lower Darling River in response to environmental flows throughout 2016–18 - 2018
  • Barwon-Darling: low flow environmental watering impediments and opportunities - 2017
  • Black Box Health and Management Options report - 2015
  • Black Box Management Framework - 2018
  • Blackwater Review - 2017
  • Characterising the ecological effects of changes in the ‘low-flow hydrology’ of the Barwon-Darling River
  • Desiccation tolerance of river and floodplain mussels in the Murray–Darling Basin - 2022
  • Determining the status of Yarra Pygmy Perch in the Murray–Darling Basin - 2019
  • Ecological response to the Lake Victoria bypass trial 2015–2017
  • Environmental flows in the Darling River to support native fish populations 2016–17 - 2018
  • Environmental flows to support Murray cod spawning in the lower Darling River 2017 - 2019
  • Event-based mechanisms in the Lower Balonne: Implementation Overview - 2019
  • Final Report June 2022 – Dharriwaa-Narran Lakes Nature Reserve Colonial Waterbird Reproductive Success Monitoring 2022 - 2022
  • Fish and Flows Intervention Monitoring in the Border Rivers - 2019
  • Fish community monitoring in NSW Murray Wetlands - 2022
  • Habitat and flow requirements of freshwater mussels in the northern Murray-Darling Basin - 2020
  • Hydrological impacts of water management arrangements on low flows in the Barwon Darling River system - 2017
  • Interim Classification of Aquatic Ecosystems in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2018
  • The influence of longitudinal hydrological connectivity on resource availability and lower order food web structure in the Murray River - 2019
  • Lamprey migration in the lower River Murray in association with Commonwealth environmental water delivery in 2019 - 2020
  • Lower Darling Baaka River Freshwater Mussel Pilot Study - 2022
  • Maximising Water Delivery for Regent Parrot Outcomes – Water for the Environment Program - 2020
  • Monitoring of translocated Murray Hardyhead in Little Frenchmans Creek, Wingillie Station NSW - 2022
  • Monitoring Murray cod spawning & recruitment in response to spring 2020 Macquarie River environmental water flows - 2021
  • Monitoring Native Fish in the Lachlan Catchment Through Environmental DNA and Conventional Methods - 2019
  • Monitoring native fish response to environmental water delivery in the lower Darling River 2020-2021 - 2021
  • Monitoring salt wedge conditions and black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) recruitment in the Coorong during 2017-18 - 2019
  • Monitoring salt wedge dynamics, food availability and black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) recruitment in the Coorong during 2018-19 - 2019
  • Narran Lakes Event Based Mechanism Pilot Project Review - Final Report - 2020
  • River Murray Channel Monitoring Plan 2021-22 to 2025-26 - 2021
  • Short-term intervention monitoring associated with the translocation of Murray Hardyhead into Little Frenchmans Creek, Wingillie Station NSW. - 2020
  • Vegetation Community and Tree Stand Condition Assessment of the Flood-Dependent Vegetation of Narran Lakes Nature Reserve (Dharriwaa) (2020-2021) - 2022
  • Weir stratification and hypoxic water management - Murrumbidgee River 2019 - 2019
  • Zooplankton community structure in relation to water quality and salt-wedge conditions in the Murray Estuary in spring/summer 2018-19 - 2019
  • Zooplankton response to a multi-site environmental watering event during spring 2019 in the River Murray - 2020

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Submissions and reviews

These submissions are by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder in response to consultations and inquiries.

Goulburn to Murray Trade Review’

  • Submission: Goulburn to Murray Trade Rule Review (May 2021) (PDF - 253.76 KB) | (DOCX - 49.87 KB)
  • Submission: Goulburn to Murray Trade Review (May 2020) (PDF - 156.7 KB) | (DOCX - 60.17 KB)

Inspector General of Murray Darling Basin Review

  • Response to questions submitted by Aither on behalf of the Interim Inspector-General of MDB Resources (PDF - 581.99 KB) | (DOCX - 413.77 KB) - 2020

Natural Resources Commission Barwon-Darling water sharing plan Review

  • CEWH Submission: Review of the Barwon-Darling Water Sharing Plan by the Natural Resource Commission (PDF - 645.16 KB)
  • CEWH Submission: Review of the Barwon-Darling Water Sharing Plan by the Natural Resource Commission (DOCX - 1.27 MB)

Natural Resources Commission water sharing plan reviews

  • CEWH Submission: Review of the Peel Water Sharing Plan by the Natural Resource Commission (PDF - 422.35 KB) | (DOCX - 47.53 KB)
  • CEWH Submission: Review of the NSW Intersecting Streams Water Sharing Plan by the Natural Resource Commission (PDF - 652.95 KB) | (DOCX - 10.87 MB)

NSW Floodplain Harvesting

  • Submission: Independent Review of floodplain harvesting in NSW water resource plans (November 2018) (PDF - 98.57 KB) | (DOCX - 42.21 KB)
  • Submission: Response to NSW DPIE on implementation of floodplain harvesting access licencing rules (June 2021) (PDF - 302.93 KB) | (DOCX - 898.91 KB)
  • Submission: Letter to NSW Senate Select Committee Inquiry – Floodplain Harvesting (August 2021) (PDF - 184.49 KB) | (DOCX - 98.89 KB)
    • Attachment: CEWO - Floodplain Harvesting (PDF - 139.35 KB) | (DOCX - 49.43 KB)

NSW Independent Assessment of the Northern Basin First Flush Event

  • Submission: NSW Review of Management of the northern Basin ‘First Flush Event’ (PDF - 513.83 KB) | (DOCX - 241.68 KB)

NSW Licensing and Trade

  • Submission: Coastal Harvestable Rights Review (PDF - 215.49 KB) | (DOCX - 57.02 KB)

NSW Regional Water Strategies

  • Submission: Border Rivers Regional Water Strategy (December 2020) (PDF - 283.11 KB) | (DOCX - 57.51 KB)
  • Submission: Gwydir River Regional Water Strategy (December 2020) (PDF - 295.27 KB) | (DOCX - 56.11 KB)
  • Submission: Lachlan Regional Water Strategy (December 2020) (PDF - 337.87 KB) | (DOCX - 50.98 KB)
  • Submission: Macquarie-Castlereagh Regional Water Strategy (December 2020) (PDF - 361.76 KB) | (DOCX - 121.02 KB)
  • Submission: Namoi Regional Water Strategy (May 2021) (PDF - 348 KB) | (DOCX - 81 KB)

NSW Water Strategies

  • Submission: New South Wales State Water Strategy (PDF - 128.24 KB) | (DOCX - 45.77 KB)

Inquiry into the management and use of Commonwealth environmental water

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment and Energy has resolved to inquire into the 2016-17 annual report of the Department of the Environment and Energy.

Departmental submissions to the Inquiry

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder submission (March 2018) (PDF - 631.52 KB)
  • Department of the Environment and Energy submission (April 2018) (PDF - 5.65 MB) - Secretary supplementary submission

Senate Select Committee on the Multi-Jurisdictional Management and Execution of the Murray Darling Basin Plan

  • Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder submission (September 2019)
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