Avon River Waterway Management
Nutrient management for the Avon River Basin:
A toolkit for managing nutrient loss to the environment from a range of land uses
Department of Water
The toolkit is based upon four key steps:
- Assessing the risk.
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Evaluating management options.
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Implementing the chosen management option.
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Monitoring the response.
To assist in the use of the toolkit these steps have been broken down into 10 actions to systematically guide you through the process of assessing and managing nutrient loss from your property. These actions have been highlighted in each of the chapters of the toolkit.
Avon River catchment Water Quality and Nutrient Monitoring Program for Part 1
Department of Water
The occurrence of algal blooms, increasing salinity and the general lowering of water quality has been of increasing concern to the Avon Catchment Council. The council provided funding for a monitoring program to assess the quality of the waters in the Avon River catchment, with a specific focus on nutrients. In the Avon natural resource management strategy (2005) water quality targets for nutrients were set at 1.00 mg/L for total nitrogen and 0.1 mg/L for total phosphorus at the gauging station in Walyunga National Park.
