Manning River Estuary Catchment and Management Program 2021-2031

7.1 STEWARDSHIP ACTIONS Engage river users and the whole community in an engagement program to promote understanding and stewardship of the river 1.01

Issues addressed Lead agency

a) Identify desired practices, undertake stakeholder analysis and needs assessment, develop an engagement program b) Implement the engagement program to build understanding of ecosystem values and services and commitment to stewardship. Floodplain drainage and ASS; Agricultural impacts; Stormwater and litter; Erosion and sediment; Biodiversity loss; Coastal wetlands loss; Riparian vegetation loss; Low and modified flows MCC (Lead) and Hunter LLS in partnership with MC2T Landcare, DPI-Agriculture, community groups, schools and DPIE. Promote whole-farm planning and Best Management Practice for catchment outcomes

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Issues addressed Lead agency 1.03 Issues addressed Lead agency

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a) Establish an environmental Best Management Practice framework for agriculture in the Manning catchment including the estuary b) Support landholders to develop whole farm planning approaches to decision making based on best management practices. Floodplain drainage and ASS; Agricultural Impacts MCC (a) and Hunter LLS (b) in partnership with MC2T Landcare, DPI-Agriculture, Industry Groups and DPI - Agriculture. Promote and facilitate establishment of 30 private conservation agreements covering 1500 ha in the Manning catchment by 2030, through Land for Wildlife and the Biodiversity Conservation Trust. Agricultural impacts; Biodiversity loss; Riparian vegetation loss Led by Biodiversity Conservation Trust and MidCoast Council (LFW) with support from Hunter Local Land Services and MC2T Landcare.

Manning River Estuary and Catchment Management Program (ECMP)

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Table 9: Contribution of the ECMP to objects of the CM Act

14 Bibliography

Appendix 6: MCC land-use strategies aligned to the CM SEPP objectives

12 Proposed amendments to the CM SEPP

13 Conclusion

Table 8: Research Program

11.2 MERI for the ECMP Action Program

Catchment

10 Coastal Zone Emergency Sub-Plan

Actions led by Council

7.8 Governance Actions

7.5 Aboriginal Custodianship Actions

7.4 Biodiversity Actions

Health Actions

7.1 Stewardship Actions

Figure 35: The three stages of evaluation

7 Management Actions

between issues

6.14 Erosion and Sediment

6.12 Biodiversity Loss

6.11 Urban Stormwater and Litter

20 March 2021

coastal inundation

6.9 Entrance Modifications

Table 4: Key impacts associated with water pollution from diffuse-source runoff

6.8 Modified Flow

6.6 Loss and degradation of riparian vegetation

Acid Sulfate Soil

6.2 Community Stewardship

6.4 Loss and degradation of coastal wetlands

5.2 Manning Threat and Risk Assessment

Table 1: Gross revenue of major industries in the MidCoast Region

4.5 Population Projections and land use

Figure 22: Risk ratings for sediment and nutrient loading in drainage units

Figure 17: The sampling location for water quality data

Figure 20: Manning River chlorophyll-a for the period 2015-2018

Figure 18: Manning River TN and TP readings from 2015-18

Figure 19: Manning River turbidity for the period 2015-2018

Figure 16: Water quality monitoring sites in the estuary

4.3 Water Quality

4.2 Natural assets

Figure 14: Program Logic Model

of the Manning catchment

3 Objectives, principles, program logic

Figure 12: Values our community ascribed to each subcatchment

Figure 13: Problem tree

3.2 Principles

2.3 What our community told us

Coastal Management

Figure 10: Option for the Manning River ECMP Governance Structure

1 Introduction Looking after the river we love

Figure 2: Map of the Planning Areas for the three separate Coastal Management Programs

2.2 Our stakeholder consultation program

1.1 About this program

2 Water Quality and Ecosystem

Characteristics of the estuary and