2023
Prepared by: Watts, R.J., McCasker, N., Howitt, J., Liu, X., Trethewie, J., Allan, C., Thiem, J., Duncan, M., Healy, S., Bond, N., Van Dyke, J., Vietz, G., Donges, M.
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The Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Plan (MER Plan) details the activities that will be implemented under the MER Program for the Edward-Kolety-Wakool Selected Area. This MER Plan includes:
- A description of the Selected Area including hydrological zones
- Overview of environmental watering options and water holdings in the Edward-Kolety-Wakool catchment
- Monitoring and research priorities, including contingency monitoring
- Monitoring indicator methods, evaluation and research
- Approach to integrating and evaluating research, including data collected under the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s Long-Term Intervention Monitoring project (2014-19)
- Summary of monitoring, evaluation and research activities, including schedule of key activities
- An engagement and communication plan
- Reporting outputs
- Project management details
Notes regarding the 2023 update to the Edward-Kolety-Wakool Selected Area Flow-MER Plan
The Edward-Wakool Monitoring Evaluation and Research (Flow-MER) Plan has been extended for one year to 2022–23, with monitoring ending on 30 June 2023 and reporting ending December 2023. All aspects of the Plan remain current with time specific sections related to what was originally planned in 2019.
In addition to numerous minor changes, the revised plan includes the following major changes:
- Updated table of monitoring sites (Tables 1 and 10)
- Updated section 6.9 and Table 23, outlining the schedule for monitoring, evaluation and research activities (2021-2023)
- Work orders for additional monitoring, research, and engagement and communications projects (see Appendices)