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2007 Reports

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79/07 Guidelines for Land-filter and Catchment-filter Techniques to Reuse Wastewater in China . By Nihal Jayawardane, John Blackwell, Evan Christen, Shahbaz Khan, Freeman Cook, Gao Zhanyi, Cheng Xianjun, Meng Guoxia and Zhang Jinkai. June 2007

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78/07 An Ecologically Sustainable Development Component System to Support Irrigation Decision-Making in Northern Australia. By Jeff K. Camkin, Justin Story and Keith L. Bristow. December 2007

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77/07 Soil Fertility Evaluation/Advisory Service in Negara Brunei Darussalam Report P1-3/4 – Fertility and Limitations to Cultivation of Major Soil Types. By MTF Wong, EC Winston, GJ Grealish and AJ Ringrose Voase.

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76/07 Soil Fertility Evaluation/Advisory Service in Negara Brunei Darussalam Report P1-2 – Soil Properties and Soil Identification Key for Major Soil Types. By GJ Grealish, RW Fitzpatrick and AJ Ringrose-Voase.

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75/07 Soil Fertility Evaluation/Advisory Service in Negara Brunei Darussalam Report P1-1.2 – Soil Maps. By GJ Grealish, AJ Ringrose-Voase and RW Fitzpatrick.

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73/07 Northern Australia Irrigation Futures: Origin, Evolution and Future Directions for the Development of a Sustainability Framework. By Jeff K. Camkin, Bart M. Kellett and Keith L. Bristow. November 2007

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70/07 Sources of sediment and nutrients to the Gippsland Lakes assessed using catchment modelling and sediment tracers. By Gary Hancock, Scott Wilkinson and Arthur Read.

68/07 Water and Sediment Characterisation and Toxicity Assessment for the Solwara 1 Project. By Stuart Simpson, Brad Angel, Ian Hamilton, David Spadaro, and Monique Binet. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

67/07 Toxcitiy assessment of seepage water from the recycling area at Blue Scope Steel, Port Kembla . By MT Binet, MS Adams and JL Stauber. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

66/07 Toxicity Assessment of Secondary Treated Sewage Effluent from Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant – Second Progress Report. By Merrin S. Adams, Jenny L. Stauber and Monique T. Binet. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

64/07 Review of oxygenation technologies with special reference to application in the Upper Swan Estuary. By Bradford Sherman, Vickie Singleton, Gary Schafran, Mark H. Mobley, Daniel McGinnis, Lee Bryant, John Little. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

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63/07 Improved SedNet Modelling of Grazing Lands in the Burdekin Catchment. By Kinsey-Henderson; A.; Sherman; B.; Bartley; R.

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62/07 Performance Assessment and Potential Indicators for Drainage Systems. By Vincent B., Vlotman W.F., Zimmer D., Hornbuckle J.W. Editors: Evan Christen and Bernard Vincent

61/07 Statistical analysis of long-term seagrass pattern in Wyee Bay compared to background locations in Lake Macquarie, 1980-200. By A Chariton. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

60/07 Statistical analysis of seagrass and microalgae percent cover in Wyee Bay compared to background location in Lake Macquari. By A Chariton. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

58/07 Toxicity Assessment of Secondary Treated Sewage Effluent from Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant from March 2005 to June 2007 – Final Monitoring Report for Melbourne Water. By Merrin S. Adams, Jenny L. Stauber, Monique T. Binet, Rick Krassoi and Chris Doyle. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

57/07 Characterisation of Groundwater and Brominated Ethene Flux Distributions at a DNAPL Source Control Plane, Belmont, Western Australia to go to Stuart Rhodes (Rio Tinto Technical Services, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia). By P.S.C. Rao & Nandita Basu (Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA), G.B. Davis, T. Bastow & R. Woodbury (CSIRO Land & Water, Floreat, WA, Australia), D.G. Thomas (Golder Associates, West Perth, WA, Australia). This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

56/07 Comments on Queensland EPA versus Landfix Pty Ltd Case. By Stauber, J. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

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55/07 Stakeholders’ perspectives on Australia’s land and water resources research needs. Michele Barson

53/07 Review of the Grab and Passive Samples of Water (28 April 2006 – 26 February 2007) from Saltwater Creek Associated with the Binary Pty Ltd. Fire. By Michael StJ Warne. This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

52/07 This report is Commercial-in-confidence, citation not permitted

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49/07 Design and Application of Automated Flood Water Quality Monitoring Systems in the Wet Tropicst. By Aaron Hawdon, Rex Keen, Joseph Kemei, Jamie Vleeshouwer and Jim Wallace

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48/07 Predicting Changes in Streamflow and Salinity Patterns after Afforestation in the Southwest Goulburn region, Australia: An assessment of the water and salt export model 2CSalt. Prepared for the Commercial Environmental Forestry project, funded by the Natural Heritage Trust. By Jorge Peña Arancibia, Albert I.J.M van Dijk, Matt Stenson, Jenet Austin

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47/07 Sediment Source Tracing in the Lake Burragorang Catchment. Report to the Sydney Catchment Authority. By Gary Caitcheon; Grant Douglas and Mark Palmer

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46/07 Regional land suitability guidelines for SBC “Serial Biological Concentration” application. By Zahra Paydar, Shahbaz Khan, Mohammad Ali Rahimi Jamnani and John Blackwell

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44/07 Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) Groundwater Drainage and Discharge Evaluation: Survey of groundwater quality 2006. Report for the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) through the Rangelands NRM Coordinating Group. By Tony Smith, Daniel Pollock, Duncan Palmer and Anna Price

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40/07 Review of the current understanding of irrigation mosaics. By Zahra Paydar, Freeman J. Cook, Emmanuel Xevi and Keith L. Bristow

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38/07 Impacts on water quality by sediments and nutrients released during extreme bushfires: Summary of findings. Report for the Sydney Catchment Authority. By Scott Wilkinson, Peter Wallbrink, Rick Shakesby, William Blake and Stefan Doerr

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37/07 Deriving moisture availability from time series remote sensing for ecohydrological applications: Development of a prototype near real-time operational system. By Tim R. McVicar; Tom G. Van Niel; Lingtao Li; Edward A. King and Randall J. Donohue

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33/07 Soil patterns along a hillslope in the Belalie Valley, Midnorth, South Australia. By M Thomas, RW Fitzpatrick, MG Cannon and J McThompson

32/07 Ecotoxicological Investigations on the Cause of Toxicity to Benthic Algae and Amphipods of Sediments and Mine Tailings in the Vicinity of Lihir Island. By J Stauber, S Simpson, D Spadaro, M Adams and T Micevska . May 2007 This report is Commercial-in-confidence.

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29/07 Partnerships and Understanding Towards Targeted Implementation: Identifying factors influencing land management practices. By Natasha B. Porter, David I. Tucker, Zoe Leviston, Simon N. Russell, Murni Po, Alexandra J. Fry, Wendy McIntyre, Blair E. Nancarrow and Lorraine E. Bates

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28/07 Scoping study of coastal and inland acid sulfate soils in the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority. By Rob Fitzpatrick, Warren Hicks, Steve Marvanek, Mark Raven, Peter Dahlhaus and Jim Cox

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26/07 Correcting Long-Term AVHRR Reflectance Data Using the Vegetation Cover Triangle. By Randall J. Donohue, Michael L. Roderick and Tim R. McVicar

25/07 Consultancy report to SARDI. March 2007. This report is Commercial-in-confidence, citation not permitted.

24/07 Consultancy report to James Cook University. March 2007. This report is Commercial-in-confidence, citation not permitted.

20/07 Derivation of a Single Dilution Factor for the Saline Brine Discharge from a Proposed Desalination Plant. By Michael StJ Warne. This report is Commercial-in-confidence

19/07 Review of Methods to Estimate Safe Dilution Levels of Desalination Plant Brine . By Michael StJ Warne. This report is Commercial-in-confidence

18/07 Reassessment of the Derivation of a Single Dilution Factor for the Saline Brine Discharge from a Proposed Desalination Plant. By Michael StJ Warne. April 2007. This report is Commercial-in-confidence

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13/07 Flow and salinity impacts of afforestation in upland dryland catchments: Perspectives from the "Catchment Characterisation" Project 2000-2004. By Glen Walker, Lu Zhang, Warrick Dawes, Mat Gilfedder, Alice Brown, Klaus Hickel, and Ray Evans.

12/07 Manganese oxidation study. By SC Apte, MS Adams, F Melville, L Andersen and LT Hales. This report is restricted access, only citation can be made public

11/07 ²²²Rn as an indicator of LNAPL. By CD Johnston and RJ Woodbury. This report is restricted access – only citation can be made public

8/07 Simpson, S.L., Batley, G.E. and Chariton, A.A. (2008). Revision of the ANZECC/ARMCANZ sediment quality guidelines. 78 pages.

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7/07Improved Approaches to Sediment Quality Assessment - Final Report. Report for the NSW Environmental Trust. By G.E. Batley, A.A. Chariton, S.L. Simpson, A.C. Roach and W.A. Maher. Feb 07

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6/07 Impacts on water quality by sediments and nutrients released during extreme bushfires: Report 4: Impacts on Lake Burragorang. Report for the Sydney Catchment Authority. By Scott Wilkinson, Peter Wallbrink, Gary Hancock, William Blake, Rick Shakesby and Vicky Farwig

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1/07 Afforestation in a catchment context: Understanding the impacts on water yield and salinity. By Lu Zhang, Rob Vertessy, Glen Walker, Mat Gilfedder and Peter Hairsine. Report also published as eWater CRC Industry Report 01/07

2007 Other reports by Land and Water authors

These reports have been published as part of a series other than Land and Water's Science Report series.

Also see Water for a Healthy Country Flagship reports.

A Framework for Assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. Report 3 : Implementation. By Howe P, Pritchard J, Cook P, Evans R, Clifton C, Cooling M. Land & Water Australia. April 2007 73 pp

A Framework for Assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. Report 2: Field Studies. By Howe P, O’Grady A, Cook P, Fass T. Land & Water Australia, April 2007, 114 pp

A Framework for Assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems. Report 1: Assessment Toolbox. Prepared for Land and Water Australia. By Clifton C, Cossens B, McAuley C, Evans R, Cook P, Howe P, Boulton A. Land & Water Australia, 2007, 70 pp

Final Report Adelaide Coastal Waters Study, Summary of Findings,  Volume 1. 2007. Fox, D.R., Batley, G.E., Blackburn, D., Bone, Y., Bryars, S., Cheshire, A., Collings, G., Ellis, D., Fairweather, P., Fallowfield, H., Harris, G., Henderson, B., Kaempf, J., Nayar, S., Pattiaratchi, C., Petrusevics, P., Townsend, M., Westphalen, G., and Wilkinson, J. 60 pages.

Impact of the 2003 alpine bushfires on streamflow: predicting the long-term impacts of bushfire on water yield. By Patrick Lane, Chris Sherwin, Murray Peel and Andrew Freebairn, MDBC Publication No. 24/08, December 2007, 61 pp [external link]

Dyack, B., John Rolfe, Judith Harvey, Deborah O’Connell, Nick Abel (2007) ‘Valuing recreation in the Murray – An assessment of the non-market recreational values at Barmah Forest and the Coorong. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship.
Summary of Report | Full Report

Endocrine disrupting chemicals in the Australia riverine environment: a pilot study on estrogenic compounds. A joint project between CSIRO and Land & Water Australia By: Williams M, Woods M, Kumar A, Ying GG, Shareef A, Karkkainen M and Kookana R. A report for Land & Water Australia (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Conceptual and statistical framework for the water quality component of the integrated report card for the Great Barrier Reef Catchments. By Kuhnert P, Bartley R, Peterson E, Browne M, Harch B, Steven A, Gibbs M, Henderson A and Brando V. (PDF, 2.4 MB) [External site]

Review of existing approaches used to develop integrated report card frameworks (IRCF) and their relevance to catchments draining to the Great Barrier Reef. By Browne M, Kuhnert P, Peterson E, Bartley R, Steven A andHarch B. (PDF, 4.3 MB) [External site]

Final Report of the National Cadmium Management Committee. 30 June 2007. By Michael Warne, George Rayment, Paul Brent, Nick Drew, Ed Klim, Michael McLaughlin, Paul Milham, Bruce Shelley, Daryl Stevens and Leigh Sparrow (PDF, 3.4 MB) [External site]

Proctor W, Connor JD, Ward J, MacDonald DH. 2007. Encouraging revegetation in Australia with a groundwater recharge credit scheme. Socio-Economics and the Environment in Discussion (SEED). CSIRO Working Paper Series Number 2007-06. May 2007. ISSN 1834-5638. 33 pp. (PDF, 341 kB)

Australian Water Resources 2005
A baseline assessment of water resources for the National Water Initiative
Level 2 Assessment
River and Wetland Health Theme
Authors: Richard H. Norris, Fiona Dyer, Peter Hairsine, Mark Kennard, Simon Linke, Linda Merrin, Arthur Read, Wayne Robinson, Chris Ryan, Scott Wilkinson, and David Williams.

Assessment of River and Wetland Health: A Framework for Comparative Assessment of the Ecological Condition of Australian Rivers and Wetlands May 2007
http://water.gov.au/publications/RWH_FARWH_Framework_070507.pdf (PDF, 1.7 MB)

Assessment of River and Wetland Health: Testing the Framework May 2007
http://water.gov.au/publications/RWH_FARWH_Testing_070507.pdf (PDF, 2 MB)

Assessment of River and Wetland Health: An Australian Snapshot May 2007
http://water.gov.au/publications/RWH_FARWH_Snapshot_090507.pdf (PDF, 2 MB)

Assessment of River and Wetland Health: Potential Comparative Indices May 2007
http://water.gov.au/publications/RWH_FARWH_Potential_Comparative_Indices_070507.pdf (PDF,929 kB)

(PDF 647 kB) April 2007 [external link]
Wallace, J.S., Arthington, A.H. and Pearson, R.G. (2007). Hydro-ecological modeling in coastal catchments: connectivity and hydro-ecological function. Unpublished Report on a Workshop held at the CSIRO Davies Laboratory, Townsville, 19-20 April 2007. Report to the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF). (45pp)

(PDF 2.3 MB) May 2007[external link]
Using Banded Tree- Agriculture Systems to meet surface water management targets – a design framework . A report for the RIRDC/Land & Water Australia/FWPRDC/MDBC Joint Venture Agroforestry Program By Tim Ellis, Nick Potter, Peter Hairsine, Jim Brophy, Jenny Ticehurst, Klaus Hickel, David Tongway, Gary Caitcheon and Rebecca Bartley. RIRDC Publication No 05/180