Meeting papers

Theme 2 - Waterlands, Wetlands and Coasts

Goal: By 2030 waterways, wetlands and coasts are healthy, resilient to change and valued by the
community.
 Target                                 Measure                                  Implementation in EBFRs
 Strategy 2.2: Protect and enhance coastal environments and vegetated buffers to coastal
 foreshores
 By 2030, maintain the extent of        Review mapping of vegetation extent      Detailed regional ecosystem
 vegetated buffers and improve          of coastal foreshores every 2 years.     mapping was prepared in EBFRs in
 diversity of coastal ecosystems.                                                2021-22, with significant expansion
                                        Every 5 years updated regional           of mapped high value regrowth and
                                        ecosystem mapping will be used to        some expansion of mapped Regional
                                        identify changes in the number and       Ecosystems (RE). In 2021 mapped
                                        extent of coastal regional               High Value Regrowth (HVR) and RE
                                        ecosystems.                              was 87.3 ha, increasing to 126.9 ha
                                                                                 in 2022 and four new REs, 12.2.5,
                                                                                 12.2.7, 12.2.13, and 12.2.15, were
                                                                                 mapped, probably due to the more
                                                                                 detailed mapping rather than more
                                                                                 recovered vegetation.



Activity/project                        Council’s         Strategies         Status in EBFRs in 2022
                                        role

Develop an integrated water             Partner,          2.1, 2.2, 4.3      The Rivers and Coast team will use
monitoring network for Council,         enabler,                             baseline water quality data to develop
community and other agencies,           funder                               sub-catchment report cards for coastal
including event monitoring of                                                creeks (Marcus, Peregian and
sediments, nutrients and litter for                                          Castaways) to determine water quality
Noosa and Mary Catchments, and a                                             and management actions, with the
Mary River sub-catchment baseline                                            potential to expand the monitoring of
and report card.                                                             coastal creeks in future.
                                                                             Work with the Environmental Health team
                                                                             is underway to ensure data collected
                                                                             through the recreational water quality
                                                                             monitoring program more publicly
                                                                             accessible.

Implement an Eastern Beaches dune       Partner, funder   1.1, 1.3, 2.2,     The development of a EBFRMP is a direct
rehabilitation program to improve the                     4.3                result of this activity. Updatecondition
condition, species diversity and                                             mapping and ecological restoration plans
stability of dune ecosystems and                                             is ongoing.
enhance resilience to climate change.

Undertake a stormwater quality          Provider,         2.1, 2.2, 4.3      Stormwater infrastructure audits and
improvement program, that includes      researcher                           condition assessments are ongoing and
an audit of stormwater quality                                               help inform Council’s capital works
improvement devices, analysing                                               renewal programs. The Burgess Creek
current infrastructure, current best                                         sub-catchment requires the development
practice and options to improve                                              of a catchment management plan to
infrastructure as it is due for                                              inform future planning and improvements.
replacement.                                                                 This work is underway. .
                                                                             The Environmental Health and
                                                                             Environmental Services branches are
                                                                             working on a coordinated approach to
                                                                             stormwater quality monitoring to help
                                                                             inform future management.




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