2016-02-02 P&O Committee - Item 3 - Attachment 3 - Noosa River Environmental Values and Water Quality Objectives

Noosa River environmental values and water quality objectives




4      Ways to improve water quality
The following documents are relevant in considering ways to improve water quality in the Noosa River
catchment. The document list below is additional to the plans, guidelines and other sources referred to in
previous sections, and is provided for information only.

Local studies
• Council planning scheme and supporting codes, policies
• Noosa River Plan, 2004
• Noosa Shire Council Urban Stormwater Management Strategy, 2002
• Noosa River Catchment Management Strategy 2001
• Development guidelines for water quality management in drinking water catchments (Seqwater)


Regional plans
• South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009 - 2031
• South East Queensland Natural Resource Management Plan 2009-2031
• South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Strategy 2007-2012
• South East Queensland Regional Water Quality Management Strategy September 2001


State plans, policies, guidelines, agreements etc
• Queensland Water Quality Guidelines 2009 (DERM)
• Monitoring and Sampling Manual 2009 (DERM)
• Draft Queensland Coastal Plan
• Memorandum of Understanding between the Queensland Government and Queensland Farmers’
    Federation relating to Farm Management Systems 2005
• Queensland Water Plan 2005 – 2010 An action plan to meet our future water needs, Queensland
    Government, August 2005


Other supporting technical information – riparian management
• Managing riparian widths to achieve multiple objectives, fact sheet 13, Land and Water Australia,
      Australian Government, 2004.
• Improving water quality, fact sheet 3, Land & Water Australia, Australian Government, 2002.
• Riparian Land Management Technical Guidelines – Volume 1 and 2, November 1999, Land and Water
      Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC)
• Guidelines for Queensland Streambank Stabilisation with Riparian Vegetation, CRC for Catchment
      Hydrology, September 1999
• Restoration of Fish Habitats – Fisheries Guidelines for Marine Areas, FHG002, Fisheries Group,
      Department of Primary Industries, October 1998
• Fisheries Guidelines for Fish Habitat Buffer Zones, FHG003, Fisheries Group, Department of Primary
      Industries, August 2000
• Guidelines for Riparian Filter Strips for Queensland Irrigators, CSIRO Land and Water, September 1999




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