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The Adelaide Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan (ACWQIP) provides a long-term strategy to achieve and sustain water quality consistent with community expectations for Adelaide’s coastal waters.
In an effort to restore and maintain the health of Adelaide’s coastal waters, the EPA has developed an Adelaide Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan (ACWQIP).
This plan includes a variety of strategies and actions aimed at reducing discharges of nutrients and suspended solids to Adelaide’s coastal waters while addressing the
14 recommendations of the Adelaide Coastal Water Study (ACWS). The plan has also incorporated the targets set in the Port River Water Quality Improvement Plan.
The ACWQIP brings together the new understanding provided by the ACWS with input provided by the Adelaide community to establish environmental values (EVs) – those features of the coast that are of importance to the community; and water quality objectives (WQOs) – measurable targets that protect water quality for Adelaide’s coastal waters.
The ACWQIP has been developed in partnership with relevant government agencies, business and industry. An overview of the plan has been provided for your information.
The EPA sought comment from Adelaide’s broader community on the vision and EVs contained within the ACWQIP in Spring 2011.
Now that the period for public comment has concluded, feedback will be responded to and the document will be finalised in 2012. Implementation of some of the ACWQIP strategies has commenced and other strategies will be implemented once the ACWQIP has been finalised.
Information sheets
- Strategies for water quality improvement for Adelaide's coastal waters
- Community vision and environmental values for Adelaide’s coastal waters
Supporting documents
The ACWQIP contains considerable background information provided as separate consultant reports and statements. These supporting technical reports contain a large amount of information that was produced to inform the development of the ACWQIP so both the contributing stakeholders and the EPA are keen to make this information available for the public. However, public comment was not directly sought on this information and the reports will not be reprinted as part of the finalisation process for the ACWQIP.
Some of this information has undergone minor editing to remove names or other information to protect privacy. Most of the work for these reports was undertaken between 2006 and 2008, and as such, some of the content is not necessarily current for 2011 and does not reflect the views of the South Australian Government or current government policy.
Report 1: Community consultation executive summaries
Report 2: Draft water quality objectives
Report 4: Modelling the catchments of Adelaide's coastal waters
Report 5: Adelaide Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan Monitoring and Assessment Framework
Report 7: Statutory capacity to implement the Adelaide Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan
Report 8: Reasonable assurance statement for the Adelaide Coastal Water Quality Improvement Plan
For further information please contact:
Environment Protection Authority, GPO Box 2607, Adelaide SA 5001
Telephone: (08) 8204 2004, Facsimile: (08) 8124 4670, Freecall (country): 1800 623 445, and email.
Links
Port River Water Quality Improvement Plan
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Coast & Marine Information – Department of Environment and Natural Resources Resources
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board
WSUD Technical Manual for Greater Adelaide
Last modified: 13/12/2011 04:43 pm
