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




                                                                Environmental values and definitions                                               ICON

 Stock Watering:
 Suitability of water supply for production of healthy livestock.                                                                                  
 Aquaculture:
 Health of aquaculture species and humans consuming aquatic foods (such as fish, molluscs and crustaceans) from commercial ventures.               
 Human consumers of aquatic foods:
 Health of humans consuming aquatic foods — such as fish, crustaceans and shellfish from natural waterways. Note that in some areas oystering
 is a more specific goal identified under the human consumer EV (see below).                                                                       
 Oystering (Goal within the EV of Human consumers of aquatic foods):
 Health of humans consuming oysters from natural waterways and commercial ventures. (Applies only to tidal waterways.)                             
 Primary recreation:
 Health of humans during recreation which involves direct contact and a high probability of water being swallowed — for example, swimming,
 surfing, windsurfing, diving and water-skiing.

 Primary recreational use, of water, means full body contact with the water, including, for example, diving, swimming, surfing, waterskiing and
                                                                                                                                                   
 windsurfing. (EPPW, s6)

 Secondary recreation:
 Health of humans during recreation which involves indirect contact and a low probability of water being swallowed — for example, wading,
 boating, rowing and fishing.

 Secondary recreational use, of water, means contact other than full body contact with the water, including, for example, boating and fishing.
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 (EPPW, s6)

 Visual recreation:
 Amenity of waterways for recreation which does not involve any contact with water — for example, walking and picnicking adjacent to a waterway.

 Visual recreational use, of a water, means viewing the water without contact with it. (EPPW, s6)                                                  


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