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The resource availability scenario (RAS) is an important consideration when developing potential environmental water priorities, plans and watering actions over the year ahead.   The assessment of the RAS occurs leading up to and throughout the water year. The assessment is based climate conditions over the previous year (rainfall, runoff and soil moisture) and surface water […]

Many changes to the condition of the Lachlan River have contributed to the degradation of native fish habitat. River regulation has changed the flow conditions upon which many native fish depend. Changed flow patterns and degraded riparian zones increase bank erosion and turbidity and sedimentation within channels, filling pools and smothering habitats, including macrophytes, woody […]

The largest Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) breeding event in over 30 years at Lake Brewster has been ongoing since October 2021. Over 15,000 nests were estimated from drone monitoring in January 2022, and thousands of large chicks and juveniles were still on the breeding mounds in May 2022. This is the largest known breeding event […]

Murrumbidgil Swamp is a wetland of national significant and lies on Merrimajeel Creek, which is one of several distributaries from the lower Lachlan River on the Lachlan alluvial fan. Research starting in the mid-late 1970s established how River Red Gums drive the ecology of Murrumbidgil Swamp,and the Office of Environment and Heritage has recenlt commissioned […]

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH) and recent former Manager RiverBank at NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) speak with the LRWG

In the Lachlan Catchment there are also nine regionally significant wetlands, four in the mid-Lachlan between Forbes and Lake Cargelligo (including Lake Cargelligo itself) and five below Lake Cargelligo. Regionally significant wetlands are recognised in part on the basis of their meeting one of the five criteria below, which was developed for identifying a key […]