Document library

• Annual Environmental Outcomes Monitoring and Research Program report – ecosystem processes 2021-22 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• Annual Environmental Outcomes Monitoring and Research Program report – floodplain connectivity and inundation 2021-22 (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Annual Environmental Outcomes Monitoring and Research Program report – groundwater dependent ecosystems 2021-22 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Annual Environmental Outcomes Monitoring and Research Program report – water dependent fauna 2021-22 (PDF, 7.5 MB)
• Annual Environmental Outcomes Monitoring and Research Program report – water dependent native vegetation 2021-22 (PDF, 3.9 MB)
• Changes in fish assemblages after the first flow releases to the Snowy River downstream of Jindabyne Dam – June 2008 (PDF, 1.9 MB)
• Contribution of unregulated tributaries to the ecological functioning of the main channel of rivers – November 2010 (PDF, 942.2 KB)
• Diets of native fish in NSW (PDF, 702.8 KB)
• Ecological response to the spring 2010 environmental flow release to the Snowy River below Jindabyne – April 2011 (PDF, 601.2 KB)
• Fish movement in the Gwydir regulated water source – August 2021 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• Frogs and flows research update: prioritising stream frogs for environmental outcomes monitoring – October 2023 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
• Hydraulic modelling of a fish barrier Pinch Falls, Snowy River – July 2007 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• Influence of unregulated tributaries on macroinvertebrate communities in a regulated river – August 2021 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• Impact of the 2002-03 wildfires on the macroinvertebrate assemblages of the Snowy River catchment – September 2008 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Importance of tributary inflows on productivity – March 2022 (PDF, 3.5 MB)
• Invertebrate response to environmental flows in the Snowy montane rivers – September 2020 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Linking changes in flow and macroinvertebrates – May 2020 (PDF, 430.9 KB)
• Macquarie marshes drought recovery – May 2020 (PDF, 919.0 KB)
• MER report snowy environmental flows March 2020 – May 2020 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Native fish outcomes 2020 – October 2020 (PDF, 433.1 KB)
• Northern Murray Darling Basin vegetation survey fact sheet (PDF, 203.2 KB)
• Recovery of macroinvertebrate communities after environmental flows – September 2020 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Representativeness and efficiency of a laboratory sub-sampling method for the Snowy River macroinvertebrate samples – September 2008 (PDF, 663.3 KB)
• Response of aquatic macroinvertebrates to the first environmental flow regime in the Snowy River – November 2007 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• Review of freshwater turtle ecology and flow – January 2022 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Snowy River flow response monitoring and modelling water bugs – November 2008 (PDF, 721.8 KB)
• Snowy River flow response monitoring fish – November 2008 (PDF, 589.3 KB)
• The effect of Mowamba River and Jindabyne Dam environmental releases on macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Snowy River 2000-2008 – December 2012 (PDF, 621.2 KB)
• The role of cease-to-pump rules in protecting macroinvertebrates in the Gwydir Unregulated River Water Sharing Plan – September 2020 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• The potential drift barrier effect of Mowamba Weir – November 2010 (PDF, 1.0 MB)
• Turtles and flows: Water requirements of the Bell’s turtle (Myuchelys bellii) – October 2023 (PDF, 3.2 MB)
• Using baited remote underwater videos to sample freshwater turtles – August 2021 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Vegetation outcomes 2020 – October 2020 (PDF, 333.0 KB)

Geomorphology

List of documents which focus on the physical surface water environments.

• Assessing changes to the Snowy River channel and vegetation 2010–19 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Field manual for identifying and mapping channel units in the Snowy River – July 2008 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• Outcomes of 2013-14 environmental releases for the Snowy River Reworking the river bed sediment by re-introducing a new spring high flow regime – May 2014 (PDF, 338.4 KB)
• Physical response to the spring 2011 environmental flow release to the Snowy River estuary – September 2013 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Snowy River flow response monitoring and modelling physical and water quality response – November 2008 (PDF, 886.6 KB)

Hydrology and hydraulics

List of documents which focus on water flow in surface water environments.

• Status and water requirements of the Booroolong frog in the Cockburn River water source – April 2024 (PDF, 6.4 MB)
• A spatial analysis of tributary effects below large storages in the NSW Murray-Darling Basin – March 2023 (PDF, 3.9 MB)
• Estimating the likelihood of impacting on the key riverine ecosystem functions using river modelling – October 2018 (PDF, 3.2 MB)
• Evaluating cease to pump rules in the unregulated tributaries of the Murrumbidgee and Tumut rivers (PDF, 475.7 KB)
• Expert panel environmental flow assessment of various rivers affected by the Snowy Mountains Scheme – May 2009 (PDF, 3.6 MB)
• Hydraulic modelling to estimate threshold discharges for sediment entrainment in the Snowy River, Australia – September 2008 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Hydrological changes attributed to environmental flow release to the Snowy River 2002-2005 – October 2010 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Lower North Coast Water Sharing Plan - amendment review – May 2016 (PDF, 4.3 MB)
• Remote sensing of pool contraction and connectivity in the Barwon-Darling (Baawan-Baaka) during 2019-20 – January 2022 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Scaling environmental flow releases in the Snowy River in unregulated snowmelt rivers of the Snowy Mountains – August 2013 (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Snowy River response monitoring and modelling: Proposed flow release strategy for the Snowy River Increased Flows 2013/14 – August 2013 (PDF, 279.8 KB)
• Snowy River response monitoring and modelling: Revised strategy for the Snowy River Increased Flows 2014-15 – August 2014 (PDF, 280.8 KB)

River health and decision support resources

List of documents which detail tools used to identify river health indices for decision support about surface water environments.

• Applying the HEVAE Framework for Riverine Ecosystems – September 2018 (PDF, 2.5 MB)
• Applying the High Ecological Value Aquatic Ecosystems framework to water management needs in NSW – May 2020 (PDF, 268.8 KB)
• Environmental outcomes of implementing the Floodplain Harvesting Policy in the Border Rivers Valley – October 2020 (PDF, 4.5 MB)
• Environmental outcomes of implementing the Floodplain Harvesting Policy in the Gwydir Valley – February 2021 (PDF, 12.8 MB)
• Environmental outcomes of implementing the Floodplain Harvesting Policy in the Macquarie Valley: Growth in General Security use scenario – March 2021 (PDF, 4.7 MB)
• Environmental outcomes of implementing the Floodplain Harvesting Policy in the Macquarie Valley – March 2021 (PDF, 14.0 MB)
• Isis River amendment review – August 2015 (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Northern Basin flow event environmental review - review of temporary water restrictions January to April 2020 – October 2020 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• NSW MER Framework – March 2020 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• NSW River styles spatial dataset companion document – June 2023 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• River Condition Index Method Report (Version 2) – January 2023 (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• River Condition Index: method development & application – August 2012 (PDF, 2.9 MB)
• River Styles – July 2019 (PDF, 224.1 KB)
• Summary of predicted environmental outcomes of implementing the NSW Floodplain Harvesting Policy – April 2021 (PDF, 195.5 KB)
• The impacts of bushfires on freshwater ecosystems – January 2024 (PDF, 8.9 MB)

• Annual surface water quality report: Barwon–Darling valley 2022–2023 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: NSW Border Rivers valley 2022–2023 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Gwydir valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.1 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Hunter valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 3.0 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Lachlan valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.3 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Macquarie-Castlereagh valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Murray valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Murrumbidgee valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Namoi valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.2 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: North Coast valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.0 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: NSW Intersecting streams 2022-2023 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: South Coast valley 2022-2023 (PDF, 1.9 MB)

• Annual surface water quality report: Barwon–Darling valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1020.5 KB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Gwydir valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Hunter valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.7 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Lachlan valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Macquarie-Castlereagh valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.4 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Murray valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Murrumbidgee valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: Namoi valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: North Coast valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: NSW Border Rivers valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.3 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: NSW Intersecting Streams valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Annual surface water quality report: South Coast valley 2021-2022 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Assessment of thermal pollution in the Snowy River below Jindabyne Dam – September 2020 (PDF, 628.3 KB)
• Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality – December 2018 (PDF, 95.6 KB)
• Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality frequently asked questions – December 2018 (PDF, 94.9 KB)
• Menindee Lakes and lower Darling: Summary of key water quality findings - Lower Darling release - water quality monitoring – June 2020 (PDF, 207.4 KB)
• Minimising persistent thermal stratification and algal blooms using improved flow velocity and discharge targets – March 2022 (PDF, 3.2 MB)
• NSW Cold Water Pollution Strategy – April 2011 (PDF, 180.5 KB)
• NSW Cold Water Pollution Strategy stage one – July 2012 (PDF, 913.6 KB)
• Water quality response to the spring 2009 environmental flow release from Tantangara Dam to the Murrumbidgee River – March 2012 (PDF, 219.5 KB)
• Water quality in the Snowy River before and after the first environmental flow regime – April 2008 (PDF, 1.2 MB)
• Water quality summary: Barwon-Darling surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 301.1 KB)
• Water quality summary: Border Rivers surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 306.9 KB)
• Water quality summary: Gwydir surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 304.2 KB)
• Water quality summary: Intersecting streams surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 305.2 KB)
• Water quality summary: Lachlan surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 310.9 KB)
• Water quality summary: Macquarie Castlereagh surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 322.6 KB)
• Water quality summary: Murray and Lower Darling surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 316.3 KB)
• Water quality summary: Murrumbidgee surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 322.0 KB)
• Water quality summary: Namoi surface water resource plan area – May 2020 (PDF, 309.8 KB)
• Water quality technical report: Barwon-Darling surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 4.2 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Border Rivers surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 4.9 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Gwydir surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 4.4 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Intersecting Streams surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 5.1 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Lachlan surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 4.9 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Macquarie Castlereagh surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 5.8 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Murray Lower Darling surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 8.5 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Murrumbidgee surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 8.0 MB)
• Water quality technical report: Namoi surface water resource plan area – February 2020 (PDF, 5.2 MB)