Sentences with phrase «cudgegong environmental flows»

Collectively, the results underscore the importance of Commonwealth and other held environmental water for maintaining and improving the ecological condition of these two waterways, and improve our ability to deliver targeted environmental flows into the future.

Environmental flows helped improve vegetation condition and water quality, as well as supporting the breeding of frogs such as the spotted marsh, barking marsh and Peron's tree frog.

Planned «hydro - cues» — or adding additional environmental flows from Eildon Weir to the Goulburn River — should also be abandoned.

As such, while there is a high need for environmental flows in the Lower Darling River, it is unlikely that the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder will be able to assist in meeting this need.

Consultation on the 2017 — 18 plan has occurred with the New South Wales (NSW) Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries, Macquarie - Cudgegong Environmental Flows Reference Group and WaterNSW.

Providing environmental flow into the Coorong was a priority for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder in 2015 - 16.

Golden perch exhibited a strong spawning result to spring environmental flows, with eggs and larvae being collected in numbers never before seen following environmental flows.

Movement of native fish species, particularly golden perch and spangled perch was facilitated by the environmental flow and connection between the Macquarie and Barwon rivers.

Benefits of weir pool raising: Flowing habitat for fish: Potterwalkagee Creek (Mulcra Island) receiving environmental flows as a result of raising the Lock 9 weir pool in 2014 - 15.

The Technical Report, which provides a comprehensive assessment of ecological outcomes to environmental flows in the Edward - Wakool Selected Area in 2014 - 15, including details on data analysis techniques and statistical outputs, is expected to be published by late February 2016.

«As water managers, we need to be prepared to actively manage our water holdings to get the best outcome from every drop - whether that is through using the water for environmental flows or by trading it.»

the impact of threats such as pests, grazing or poor water quality on ecological improvements through environmental flows.

«For example, improving vegetation condition is a naturally slow process but monitoring in the Goulburn River found environmental flows during summer 2014 and autumn 2015 had encouraged bank - stabilising plant growth,» he said.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder works closely with local waterway managers to ascertain whether providing environmental flows are likely to have a significant effect — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms or dilute hypoxic blackwater events are often beyond what the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder holds or what can be delivered in regulated systems.

Spring environmental flows improved native vegetation abundance and diversity along areas of riverbank.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office contracted the NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries to undertake a short - term monitoring project to assess the response of native fish in the Macquarie River to these environmental flows.

Environmental flows down the Darling Anabranch from Lake Cawndilla have converged with the Murray River downstream of Wentworth creating a fish highway not seen for three years.

The Government rather confusingly refers to the amendment as an «adjustment to the Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDL)» in the Northern Basin — «recovering water» from «environmental flows» rather than «allowing irrigators to use it for commercial gain».

Last year, the Murray - Darling Basin Authority recommended a reduction in environmental flows of 70 gigalitres per year from the Darling River catchments, including a reduction of environmental flows to the internationally important Macquarie Marshes, which the study shows have also suffered a long - term decline in waterbird numbers across most species.

«This reduction in environmental flows would exacerbate the long - term impacts of water resource development,» says Professor Kingsford.

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

«Designing rivers: Environmental flows for ecosystem services in rivers natural and novel.»

She also served on the Texas Economic Development Commission and the Environmental Flows Study Commission.

For example, intra-strain cooperative behaviors are more likely to be evolutionarily stable when different cell lineages are segregated in space, with typical interaction distances between cells being strongly influenced by the diffusivity of secreted products, biofilm architecture, and environmental flow conditions [16 — 19].

While I would love to see all rivers flow freely, a pragmatic approach is to ensure environmental flows in the rivers.

My research group (Risk and Sustainable Management Group) presented a paper on this topic, and a number of others on modelling risk and uncertainty and the complex trade - offs between environmental flows, trees for carbon capture and irrigated agriculture.

One of the biggest challenges for hurricane modeling is creating a model that can accurately depict the large - scale, environmental flow of the atmosphere that is largely responsible for steering the hurricane, while at the same time representing the finer scale details of the inner core region that determine the intensity of the storm.

Power production in China has to compete with agriculture, industries, and environmental flows for an already scarce resource.

As Arizona works toward new water laws, more should be done to bring transparency to the policy process and prioritize environmental flows, say members of the Sustainable Water Workgroup.5 months ago

Not exact matches

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13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

With environmental costs dumped on China, the savings flow directly to global corporate bottom lines.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Tom Steyer, environmental activist and former hedge fund manager extraordinaire, has fully embraced the new anti-Keystone mantra, which goes something like this: the U.S. is going to be simply a conduit for Alberta's oilsand crude, which would flow to Gulf of Mexico refineries and then be promptly exported, with Canadians pocketing most of the profits.

In its bid to block flows of diluted bitumen, the Horgan government is relying on a B.C. Environmental Management Act provision to regulate transport of harmful substances, and the province may be on shaky legal ground if it restricts one transportation mode and not another.

PDC's strategy is simple: increase shareholder value through the growth of reserves, production, and per share cash flow and earnings, while focusing on safe and efficient operations, environmental stewardship and community outreach.

The B.C. government has submitted a reference to the BC Court of Appeal asking for clarity on whether it is within the province's power to enact environmental laws that would restrict the flow of diluted bitumen through B.C.

That flows from the underlying «retributivist» (great term) nature of modern environmental ideology, reflected in the polluter pay principal, which results in a lack of empathy or concern for the welfare of people who benefit from pollution.

Rachel Carson's landmark book, Silent Spring, said that our environmental predicament flowed from our (foolhardy) desire to control nature.

The Tuppal Creek landholders greatly assisted NSW environmental water managers to develop the watering objectives, delivery timing and flow release rates for the event and were directly involved in the monitoring program.

Between July 2012 and June 2013, over 1000 GL held by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (770 GL) and The Living Murray program (289 GL)-- including return flows from the Victorian rivers — is expected to have been delivered.

The increases were linked to return flows from the inundated Chowilla floodplain using The Living Murray environmental water, supported by the concurrent delivery of Commonwealth environmental water through the main channel.

Commonwealth environmental water contributed to the prevalence of flowing water habitats, important for riverine fishes such as Murray Cod.

It was not possible to deliver the 450GL environmental upwater to South Australia, nor achieve flows at the South Australian border of between 60,000 and 80,000 megalitres (ML) a day, without flooding private property.

«If Victoria stands by these statements, this means that it is simply not possible to deliver the 450GL upwater and large environmental flood flows downstream.

«Even when flows are restricted to in channel flows, landowners have grave concerns that due to the inability to accurately predict tributary inflows in the steep upper catchments, and overcome flow time lag, the proponents have been forced to propose releasing environmental water from Eildon Weir and piggyback it on high (Goulburn River) tributary flows.

3.9 gigalitres of Commonwealth environmental water was made available to provide flows through Muggabah Creek near Booligal in the Lachlan catchment.

Over 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakes).

This water was in addition to the 722 GL of Commonwealth environmental water delivered to maintain barrage flow to the Lower Lakes to 31 December 2015 as part of the River Murray Valley Flows and including return flows from watering events in Victorian tributaFlows and including return flows from watering events in Victorian tributaflows from watering events in Victorian tributaries.

Councillor Trevor Norton (District Council of Loxton Waikerie), Craig Ferber (Project Manager, Loxton to Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Committee), Michelle Campbell (Local Engagement Officer, Commonwealth Environmental Water Office) and Ian Atkinson (Chief Executive Officer, Nature Foundation South Australia) watching environmental water flowing into a wetland at Loxton Riverfront ResEnvironmental Water Office) and Ian Atkinson (Chief Executive Officer, Nature Foundation South Australia) watching environmental water flowing into a wetland at Loxton Riverfront Resenvironmental water flowing into a wetland at Loxton Riverfront Reserve in 2014.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, contributed to whole - of - system watering in the River Murray, providing benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2016 - 17 and contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.