Catchment Condition

Catchment Condition Indicators
As part of an Integrated Catchment Monitoring and Assessment Strategy the Department of Natural Resources and Environment is developing a set of Catchment Condition Indicators for regular comparative reporting.

Index of Stream Condition...
The Index of Stream Condition has been developed as a tool to aid waterway managers, by measuring a stream's change from natural or ideal conditions.

Freshwater Ecology Research
This site provides information about DSE's freshwater ecology research; including flow assessment, fish ecology and conservation biology, macroinvertebrates, water quality, aquatic ecotoxicology, fishway design, and aquatic taxonomy.

Collecting water samples, North Central Catchment Management Area
Photo: Waterwatch Victoria

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Monitoring River Health...
A number of programs have been established to monitor or assess the health of streams.

This page presents links to the Index of Stream Condition; stream flow, river health and water quality trend information; and to community monitoring programs.

Water Resource Management

Stream Condition
Water Quality
Groundwater Quality

A number of programs have been established to monitor or assess the health of Victoria's streams.

Channel deepening, bank erosion and sedimentation, James Creek, Campaspe Basin, 1989
Photo: State of the Streams Survey, DWR, 1990