What's involved
What is involved in developing a WQPP?
The water quality improvement planning process aims to develop water quality objectives to protect identified environmental values. It also seeks to identify the most environmentally, socially and economically effective management of nutrient and sediment loads to ensure no decline in the quality of Harbour waters.
The development of the WQPP broadly involves the following inter-related activities:
- consolidating current knowledge.
- establishing environmental values and uses in consultation with key stakeholders.
- developing water quality objectives (concentration and load) that include and integrate management practice, catchment water quality and ecosystem health.
- identifying appropriate management strategies to maintain water quality objectives (i.e. linking management action targets to resource condition targets).
- developing an implementation plan, and modelling, monitoring and adaptive management strategies.
The WQPP is guided by a steering committee that includes representatives from across the whole community, government agencies, industry groups and scientists to ensure that the best available local, indigenous, social, economic and scientific knowledge is brought together.
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