Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Conference papers |
| Title (Primary) | Integrated modelling and decision-making analysis for water quality management: the Ben Chifley Dam catchment case study |
| Title (Secondary) | Conference on "Integrated Water Management of Transboundary Catchments: a contribution from TRANSCAT", Venice/Italy, 24-26 March 2004 |
| Author | Myšiak, J.; Newham, L.; Letcheer, R. |
| Year | 2004 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | The integrated river or catchment-based management of land and water resources is generally regarded as the most effective way to address intertwined problems such as eutrophication and progressive land degradation. Solving these problems requires assessing the ecological and socioeconomic outcomes of the remediation measures and analysing the measures’ performance with regard to a defined set of objectives. Following the recent changes in water management legislation in New South Wales (NSW, Australia), both these components now have to be integrated within a seamless framework. The legislative changes (e.g. the Water Management Act 2000) tackle problems related to sharing water across government and water management boundaries and address combined water-land management. In this paper we tackle the water quality issue related to land erosion and the subsequent washing of nutrient loads into surface water using the example of the Ben Chifley Dam (BCD), which is located on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Eutrophication in the dam has caused the increased occurrence of blue-green algal blooms in the past, which impair the riverine ecosystems and the downstream water uses. The BCD Steering Committee, a community institution in charge of catchmentbased management, has to decide how to the use the funds available to tackle the problem. The environmental modelling and decision aid approach described has been developed to help the Steering Committee assess the ecological and economic impact of the measures and to identify subcatchments where the measures are likely to have the greatest effect. Throughout the paper the strategies applied in the EU and NSW to tackle water quantity ands quality issues are discussed. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=4384 |
| Myšiak, J., Newham, L., Letcheer, R. (2004): Integrated modelling and decision-making analysis for water quality management: the Ben Chifley Dam catchment case study Conference on "Integrated Water Management of Transboundary Catchments: a contribution from TRANSCAT", Venice/Italy, 24-26 March 2004 |
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