Manning River Estuary Catchment and Management Program 2021-2031

7.4 BIODIVERSITY ACTIONS 4.01 Issues addressed

Address 3 priority sites and/or re-connect 70 km of fish passage by removing or re-designing barriers identified in the audit by Fisheries. Biodiversity loss

Priority areas

Priorities in the estuary: barriers on main stem and tributaries of the Manning with proximity to the estuary Priority freshwater river subcatchments: Bretti Trail Road causeway on the Barnard River; Hicks Lane on the Cooplacurripa River; Duffys Forest Road and Cells River Road on Rowleys River

Lead agency

MidCoast Council in partnership with DPI - Fisheries

4.02 Issues addressed Lead agency 4.03 Issues addressed

Develop and implement cross-tenure integrated pest and weed control plans to protect priority natural assets within the Manning River and its catchment. Biodiversity loss; loss and degradation of riparian vegetation Hunter Local Land Services (lead) with supporting agencies MCC, NPWS, Forestry Corporation Implement recommendations of the Manning Catchment Refugia Study 2021, working in partnership with private landholders to assess, protect, restore and monitor hydrological refugia in 10 priority reaches in priority subcatchments. Biodiversity loss

Priority areas

Dingo Creek, Barnard River, Nowendoc

Lead agency

MidCoast Council with support from MC2T Landcare and Manning River Turtle Steering Group.

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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