9ASM Proceedings

1 Introduction
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2 Table of Contents
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3 Regular intervention monitoring providing valuable insights into vegetation responses to environmental flows on rivers
Pages 1-9
Chris Jones and Freya Thomas


4 A long-term temporal evaluation of environmental flow regimes in southern Victoria
Pages 10-17
Mark Stacey


5 Tactics for stretching a waterbug based monitoring program across a continent
Pages 18-24
John Gooderham, Birgita Hansen, Ingrid Garland, Michael Sharman, Deirdre Murphy, Scott Limmer and Patrick Bonney


6 Monitoring fish responses to environmental flows across Victoria: a shift towards understanding processes, population dynamics and long-term projections
Page 25
Zeb Tonkin, Frank Amtstaetter, Wayne Koster, Matt Jones, Justin O’Connor, Ivor Stuart, Kasey Stamation, Joanne Sharley, Jarod Lyon, Jacqui Brooks, Laura Caffrey and Pam Clunie


7 Development of a state-wide map of the extent and location of high value, at-risk groundwater dependent ecosystems
Pages 26-32
Yi-Ming Ma


8 Sociogeomorphic river recovery: integrating human and physical processes
Pages 33-40
Simon Mould, Kirstie Fryirs and Richard Howitt


9 Rivers, amenity and art: the geomorphologist’s role in health and liveability
Pages 41-45
Sandra Brizga


10 Delivering priorities for the Gippsland Lakes through partnerships
Pages 46-53
Sean Phillipson


11 New ways of collaborating for improved catchment outcomes
Pages 54-64
Julie Francis


12 ALRS – Key observations and lessons associated with the role out of a state wide flood recovery program
Pages 65-71
Julian Martin and Jesse Webster


13 Applied Fluvial Geomorphology in the 21st Century: embracing a Waterway Asset Management approach
Pages 72-76
Penny Rogers and Leigh Smith


14 Dredging up the past: what are the current implications for Victorian rivers from historic gold dredging?
Pages 77-85
James Grove, Jodi Turnbull, Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, Ian Rutherfurd and Ewen Silvester


15 Rates of bank erosion under natural and regulated flows in the Upper Murray River system – Khancoban Dam to Jingellic
Pages 86-93
Brett Phillips, Andrew Simon, Jennifer Hammond, Kimberly Artita and Elizabeth Pope


16 Rates of Bank Erosion under Different and Alternative-Flow Releases along the Mitta Mitta River – Developing Metrics to Limit Erosion Downstream from Dartmouth Dam
Pages 94-102
Andrew Simon, Jennifer Hammond, Kimberly Artita and Sarah Commens


17 Assessment of channel expansion and contraction using cross-section data from repeated LiDAR acquisitions in the Macquarie Marshes, NSW
Pages 103-110
Neda Yousefi, Tim Ralph, Hsing-Chung Chang, Paul Hesse and William Farebrother


18 Trialling the use of controlled burning for exotic vegetation management in novel riparian ecosystems
Pages 111-118
Rebecca Mabbott and Kirstie Fryirs


19 Causes and management of dieback in River Red Gum trees along Malcolm Creek, Craigieburn
Pages 119-126
Craig Clifton, Simon Treadwell and Ryan van den Hove


20 Oxley Creek Transformation – An overview of waterway issues and restoration strategies
Pages 127-136
Ben Pearson, Scott Chaseling, Tony Dickson and Shaun Leinster


21 Riparian fencing: can’t we just make them do it? No, and here’s why
Pages 137-146
Greg Peters


22 Restoring Riparian Resilience in the Mary River catchment – an integrated catchment management approach
Pages 147-157
Brad Wedlock, Tanzi Smith, Eva Ford and Sarah Grimish


23 When to break the habit: Adapting the FLOWS method for use in the highly modified Lower Broken Creek
Pages 158-165
Lisa Duncan, Simon Treadwell and Daniel Lovell


24 Lifting our gaze: improved environmental water management requires a landscape-scale approach
Pages 166-173
Andrew Sharpe


25 Maintaining drought refuge pools in the Wimmera River
Pages 174-181
Amanda Shipp and Greg Fletcher


26 Detection of long-term change in waterway health due to flow
Pages 182-188
Terry Chan, Ashley Sparrow, Nick Bond, Jennifer Hale, Greg Jenkins, Liz Morris and Suzanne Witteveen


27 Werribee River Ecohydraulics
Pages 189-197
Parvin Zavarei


28 Use of catchment carbon offsets to build climate resilience in catchments and help the water sector achieve zero net emissions
Pages 198-205
Craig Clifton, Kristin Moss, Kate Brunt, Chris Pitfield and Julie Rissman


29 Are trade-offs acceptable or just accepting defeat?
Pages 206-212
Glenn Browning


30 Collaborative water management in the Ringarooma River catchment Tasmania, Australia
Pages 213-222
Chris Cleary, Scott Hardie, Brigid Morrison and Andrew Aldridge


31 Imagine the Yarra: how community, legislation and land use planning is shaping the future of an iconic waterway
Pages 223-231
Karen White and Hannah Pexton


32 What happens to the stream when the coal mine closes – A cautionary tale for legislation, licencing and best practice
Pages 232-239
Ian Wright, Peter Davies and Phillip Lorenzelli


33 Bank-stabilising rock fillets increase diversity and abundance of macro invertebrate and meiofaunal communities in the Kalang estuary, NSW
Pages 240-247
Sam Lewis, Sarah Mika, Ben Vincent, Darren Ryder and John Schmidt


34 Understanding the evolution of floodplain channels by avulsion: An investigation on the floodplain of Murray River
Pages 248-255
Abdullah Baky, Ian Rutherfurd and Philip Marren


35 Channel erosion risk assessment of south east Queensland
Pages 256-264
Misko Ivezich and Danielle Udy


36 Managing erosion from vessel wash on a reach of the Murray River
Pages 265-271
Hugo Bowman and Kade Small


37 Mid-King Cooperative Avulsion Management
Pages 272-277
Andrew Briggs


38 Rehabilitation of the Nimmie-Caira
Pages 278-285
Ross Hardie


39 Seed germination traits of two common floodplain eucalypts: optimum germination temperatures and influence of leaf litter
Pages 286-293
Ben Vincent, Rhiannon Smith, Megan Good and Peter Clarke


40 From planting willows to pulling them out: The past, present and future of riparian management in Victoria
Pages 294-304
Peter Vollebergh and Jo Slijkerman


41 Development of the stream rehabilitation guidelines for Queensland
Pages 305-308
Luke McPhail, Michael Cheetham, Andrew Markham, Julian Martin, Andrew Brooks, Geoff Vietz, Ben Pearson, Jim Tait and Tim Pietsch


42 Is my river health intervention project working? Results and lessons learned from 10 years of riparian works monitoring in the Melbourne region
Pages 309-316
Apanie Wood, James Kaye, Monica Tewman and Bridie Velik-Lord


43 Evaluation and redirection of a long term broad scale river health monitoring program in Tasmania Australia
Pages 317-324
Scott Hardie, Christopher Bobbi and Adam Uytendaal


44 Tracking platypus populations through genetic fingerprints
Pages 325-335
Josh Griffiths, Anthony van Rooyen, Jean-Michel Benier, Rhys Coleman and Andrew Weeks


45 What Landholder is That? Tailoring Your Engagement Approach
Pages 336-341
Lori Gould


46 Georges River Aboriginal Riverkeeper Team: a model for successful engagement of Aboriginal communities in natural resource management of urban areas
Pages 342-349
Tony Wales and Vanessa Cavanagh


47 What’s in it for me – an evidence based approach to improve landholder adoption of riparian works
Pages 350-357
Rob Richards and Peter Vollebergh


48 When Perception and Evidence Based Practice Collide – Floodplain and Waterway Management in the aftermath of the 2016 Floods at St Marys, Tasmania
Pages 358-365
Julian Skipworth


49 Returning native fish to an urban creek in Logan
Pages 366-370
Barnaby Resch and Matt Moore


50 Using concreted stormwater channels for determining ‘worse case scenarios’ when assigning grades of relative condition to urban waterways
Pages 371-379
David Reid and Carl Tippler


51 Concrete Stormwater Channels: Urban Stream Wasteland or Supercharged Ecosystems?
Pages 380-385
Carl Tippler and David Reid


52 Setting Appropriate Goals for Urban Stream Restoration: A Case Study from Blacktown City Council
Pages 386-394
Carl Tippler, David Reid, Craig Bush, Michael Dean, Phillip Birtles and Nakia Belmer


53 Fish Passage Considerations for Retrofit of Base Flow Weir Gauges
Pages 395-405
Megan Holcomb and Matt Curtis


54 Groundwater the known unknown in floodplain management
Pages 406-413
Andrew Telfer, Alison Charles and Whendee Young


55 Predicting opening duration of intermittently open/closed estuaries in victoria
Pages 414-422
Sarah McSweeney, Justin Stout, Ian Rutherfurd and David Kennedy


56 When one model just isn’t enough
Pages 423-427
Danielle Udy


57 Which on-ground projects will give me the best environmental return?
Pages 428-435
Nick Marsh, Tory Grice, Adam Northey, Mark Silburn, Melanie Shaw, Grant Fraser and Dan Rattray


58 “Does anyone here speak water-ish?” – How the benefits of environmental flows get lost in translation
Pages 436-444
Sarina Loo


59 Flows, habitat, connectivity and cooperation: recovering native fish in northern Victoria
Pages 445-452
Phil Slessar


60 Environmental response of reconnecting billabongs along the Yarra River
Pages 453-460
Sarah Heard, Simon Treadwell and Sarah Gaskill


61 Warrego Hydrology: what is, what was and what might have been
Pages 461-468
Paul Frazier, Mark Southwell and Andrew Herron


62 Toorale environmental water delivery project: A case study in loaves and fishes
Pages 469-476
Ross Hardie and Amanda Shipp


63 The Presence of Illicit Compounds in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River System
Pages 477-483
Jason Reynolds, Bianca Russom and Michelle Ryan


64 Heavy metal contamination of water column from a coal mine waste water discharge resulting in mobilisation of metal contaminants to riparian vegetation. Wollangambe River, Blue Mountains Australia.
Pages 484-492
Nakia Belmer and Ian Wright


65 A web-based interface to visualize and model spatio-temporal variability of stream water quality
Pages 493-501
Danlu Guo, Anna Lintern, James Webb, Dongryeol Ryu, Shuci Liu, Ulrike Bende-Michl, Paul Leahy, David Waters, Malcolm Watson, Paul Wilson and Andrew Western


66 Data versus desktop: an assessment of the severity of cold water pollution in the Swampy Plains and Murray Rivers below Khancoban Dam
Pages 502-508
Elizabeth Pope and Andrew Nolan


67 Planning for future wastewater discharges to streams in urban-growth areas, Tasmania
Pages 509-514
Bonnie Bonneville, Royce Aldred and Jo Oliver


68 Benefits and challenges of incorporating spatially-explicit quantitative modelling and action prioritisation in Melbourne Water’s Healthy Waterways Strategy
Pages 515-522
Rhys Coleman, Yung En Chee and Christopher Walsh


69 Multi site environmental water planning in South Australia using ewater source
Pages 523-530
Claire Sims, Matt Gibbs, Rebecca Turner, Tracey Steggles and Adrienne Rumbelow


70 Using Aquatic Habitat Mapping to prioritise on-ground investment
Pages 531-537
Bruce Christie, Clayton Miller, Mick Callan and Rod Price


71 Urban Streamflow Evaluation and Amelioration Method: A New Approach for Waterway Protection and Rehabilitation
Pages 538-545
Geoff Vietz, Carl Tippler and Kathy Russell


72 Prioritising Kayak Access on the Yarra River
Pages 546-553
Chris Dwyer and Dan Green


73 Innovative solutions to alluvial gully remediation: a case study from the Great Barrier Reef catchments
Pages 554-566
Lynise Wearne, Damon Telfer, Delwyn Windridge and Sunny Behzadnia


74 A comparison of methods for measuring water quality improvements from gully rehabilitation in Great Barrier Reef catchments
Pages 567-574
Andrew Brooks, John Spencer, Nicholas Doriean, Tim Pietsch and Jorg Hacker


75 Addressing gully erosion in the Great Barrier Reef catchments: priorities and progress
Pages 575-582
Scott Wilkinson, Peter Hairsine and Aaron Hawdon


76 Costs of achieving the water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef
Pages 583-588
Steve Skull, Tony Weber, Jim Binney and Mark Stacey


77 Hope for the best, plan for the worst: Managing sediment input in the upper catchment whilst preparing for avulsion at the mouth.
Pages 589-596
Michael Cheetham and Julian Martin


78 Local scale interventions accelerate recovery at the tail of a bedload pulse
Pages 597-606
Alex Sims and Ian Rutherfurd


79 Looking through Goggles – The Murray River from a different perspective – A short film
Page 607
Ben Berry and Robert Nugent


80 Urban streams and sediments: informing better management through recent findings
Pages 608-614
Kathryn Russell, Geoff Vietz and Tim Fletcher


81 Were load-based stormwater objectives a necessary mistake to progress water sensitive urban design?
Pages 615-621
Andrew O’Neill, Glenn Browning and Tony Weber


82 Managing urban streams: change the channel or change the flow?
Pages 622-629
Desmond Anim, Geoff Vietz, Tim Fletcher, Gregory Pasternack and Matthew Burns


83 Did it work? Do the landholders value and manage it? Is it still there? Setting the standard for follow-up riparian inspections and landholder engagement
Pages 630-638
Bron Gwyther, Peter Vollebergh and Jon Leevers


84 Georges Riverkeeper – 40 years in the making
Pages 639-648
Beth Salt, David Reid, Tony Wales and Lisa Smith


85 Supporting and connecting community through restoration- Why the Rivers of Carbon model works for Landcare
Pages 649-652
Mary Bonet


86 Benefits of the Mary River catchment Waterwatch Program for integrated stream management and monitoring outcomes
Pages 653-663
Jess Dean


87 Derivation of site-specific water quality objectives within a highly disturbed Tasmanian catchment
Pages 664-672
Marie Bigot and Ross Smith


88 Is geochemical contamination from urban development contributing to weed invasions in high conservation value wetlands
Pages 673-680
Rani Carroll, Ian Wright and Jason Reynolds


89 Community triggers EPA action to address river water pollution caused by inflow of coal mine waste water
Pages 681-688
Benjamin Green, Nakia Belmer, Rani Carroll, Katherine Morrison and Ian Wright


90 A five-year investigation of water pollution in a small stream due to stream channel fracturing that was triggered by subsidence from underground coal mining
Pages 689-690
Katherine Morrison, Ian Wright and Jason Reynold


91 It’s a good news story! Tracking geomorphic recovery of rivers in eastern New South Wales as part of process-based river management
Pages 691-704
Kirstie Fryirs, Gary Brierley, Fergus Hancock, Tim Cohen, Andrew Brooks, Ivars Reinfelds, Nick Cook and Allan Raine


92 Towards identifying geomorphic rarity and vulnerability use of River Styles in high ecological value aquatic ecosystems
Pages 705-712
Fergus Hancock and Kirstie Fryirs


93 Maribyrnong river erosion control project floating boom trial
Pages 713-720
Zoe Samson and Michael Bain


94 Gully erosion control activities in the Mary River catchment
Pages 721-726
Shaun Fisher, Bec Watson, Belinda Wedlock and Brad Wedlock


95 Maintenance of WSUD Assets – “The good, The bad and The ugly”
Pages 727-738
Niloo Tara


96 The Challenges Faced in Naturalising Channelised/Urbanised Waterways Extend Far Beyond the Physical Design of a Functioning Waterway
Pages 739-743
Chris Dwyer, Sarah Watkins, Aaron Broadway and Adam Hall


97 Habitat improvement and creation for threatened dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla) along the Dandenong Creek corridor in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne
Pages 744-751
Rhys Coleman, Jenny Butcher, Jonathon Mclean, Amanda Shipp and Andrew Weeks


98 Water quality and ecological recovery of a mountain stream after 60 years of receiving sewage effluent
Pages 752-761
Ian Wright, Katherine Morrison and Michelle Ryan


99 Reflection on the achievements of River Health Incentives Program: 22 years of partnering with community to improve waterway health
Pages 762-770
Lizzie Younger and Anna Zsoldos


100 Design Your Creek Week – Community co-design to for a 1.6 km waterway naturalisation project.
Pages 771-778
Alan Hoban, Amalie Wright, Ben Walker and Geoff Vietz


101 What to do when your data doesn’t tell the whole picture..?
Pages 779-782
Simon Laird


102 Wodonga regional waterway action plan: a community led waterway action plan
Pages 783-789
Tom Atkin, Julian Martin and James Kaye


103 Ecosystem productivity of a wet-dry tropics wetland system: Establishing a baseline understanding for conservation
Pages 790-797
Danelle Agnew, Kirstie Fryirs, Tim Ralph and Tsuyoshi Kobayashi


104 The Importance of Swampy Meadows
Pages 798-801
Mick Callan


105 Challenges of improving the connectivity of an abandoned Yarra River water course
Pages 802-810
Ashley Roberts


106 Using redundant drainage infrastructure to protect vulnerable wetlands
Pages 811-818
Steve Wickson and Elizabeth Johnston


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