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EMP 1—Environmental monitoring
program
Issue: How should the coastal
waters and adjacent environment be monitored
in future?
At the moment, Adelaide’s coastal
waters are monitored in separate programs
that investigate relatively small areas
for relatively short periods of time. The
discharges from coastal WWTPs are checked
to ensure that the WWTPs comply with their
licence conditions. The water quality at
the coast is measured at selected sites
month by month to ensure the waters are
safe for swimming, surfing, boating, fishing
and other recreation. But the environmental
effects of the waters entering the coastal
area are not monitored, and monitoring
does not continue over long periods of
time.
Response: Environmental Monitoring
Program
All research tasks will contribute to
the Environmental Monitoring Program. This
very important task will use information
gathered during the course of the study
to design a cost-effective ongoing monitoring
program that will integrate new and existing
monitoring activities. It will ensure that
data collection protocols are compatible
among research tasks, identify the parameters
to be monitored, and the monitoring sites
and frequencies required across all the
programs. It will manage the data collected
by each research team, so the data are
collected in formats that can be statistically
analysed and used across all the programs.
It will coordinate and assist in the statistical
analyses when the data begin to flow.
Researcher Links
www.cmis.csiro.au/emmrisk/
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