Eyre Peninsula WAP MERI Plan Ben Smith Monitoring, Evaluation & - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Eyre Peninsula WAP MERI Plan Ben Smith Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting Officer Dr Greg Kerr Landscape Ecologist Natural Resources Eyre Peninsula WAP MERI Plan DEWNR responsible for monitoring MERI Plan currently being

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Eyre Peninsula WAP MERI Plan

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Ben Smith – Monitoring, Evaluation & Reporting Officer Dr Greg Kerr – Landscape Ecologist

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WAP MERI Plan

DEWNR responsible for

monitoring

MERI Plan currently being

reviewed by DEWNR

Will be released following

Minister’s approval of the WAP

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In or Out of the WAP?

MERI Plan will be a separate to the WAP
It is a living document
Allows us to update the MERI Plan as required

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Monitoring Network

Salinity and water level monitoring across all

freshwater lenses in both Musgrave and Southern Basins PWA

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Musgrave Southern Basins

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Telemetered Wells

Installation of additional telemetered wells in Uley

Wanilla and Lincoln South lenses

Data available in real time on Water Connect

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Lincoln North

Identified as a data gap
New monitoring

network to be established

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GDE Monitoring

Key Monitoring Objectives

1. Identify the priority groundwater dependent

ecosystems (GDE’s)

Wetlands
Phreatophytes
2. Quantify the baseline GDE condition
3. Identify the cause of any observed change in

condition

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Assessing Wetland Condition

Assessing vegetation

condition within zones along a ground- water gradient

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Assessing Bushland Condition

Using the protocols

developed by the Nature Conservation Society of South Australia

10 condition indicators
Specific condition

indicators for each of the vegetation communities

n Eyre Peninsula

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Assessing Ground Water Dependent Tree Condition

River Red Gum

Using Souter et al. 2009
developed to assess the

status and monitor the effect

f management on water

stressed river red gum

assesses current condition

and the direction of travel along a decline/recovery trajectory

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Citizen Science

Citizen science enlists the public in collecting data.
A Citizen Scientist is a volunteer who collects

and/or processes data as part of a scientific enquiry.

Monitoring of tree condition presents an excellent
pportunity to involve the community in data

collection

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Thankyou

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