Strategy Actions List

The actions contained within the Gippsland Region Sustainable Water Strategy are listed below. Click on the actions under each chapter heading to view a detailed summary.

Chapter 3	Actions (click to expand/hide)
Action 3.1	Balanced approach to allocating new entitlements
Action 3.2	Strategic groundwater resource assessments
Action 3.3	Staged release of unallocated water
Action 3.4	Developing local management plans for unregulated surface water and groundwater systems
Action 3.5	Reviewing the process for declaring water supply protection areas and developing statutory management plans
Action 3.6	Providing more security to section 51 take and use licence-holders
Action 3.7	Improving information sharing about climate variability and risks
Action 3.8	Upgrading and refining the groundwater monitoring network
Action 3.9	Establishing secure ongoing funding for future maintenance and renewal of the monitoring network
Action 3.10	Amend the Water Act 1989 so that intensive management areas can be declared to control water intensive land use changes
Action 3.11	State-wide recording of water use by land use changes
Action 3.12	Improving information about domestic and stock dams
Action 3.13	Requiring property owners to register new stock and domestic bores
Action 3.14	Monitoring and tracking water use outside the entitlement framework
Action 3.15	Revising groundwater management units (GMUs)
Action 3.16	Considering adverse impacts of existing oil and gas extractions
Action 3.17	Consistent groundwater licensing requirements for new quarries and mines
Action 3.18	Understanding and monitoring the risk of coastal subsidence
Action 3.19	Emerging technologies
Action 3.20	Considering water impacts when undertaking planned burning and other bushfire control measures

Chapter 4	Actions (click to expand/hide)
Action 4.1	Promoting water conservation and efficiency
Action 4.2	Improving opportunities for water trading in groundwater and unregulated river systems
Action 4.3	Harvesting high flows
Action 4.4	Streamlining the approval of section 67 licences to construct storages
Action 4.5	Encouraging fit-for-purpose use of alternative water supplies
Action 4.6	Extending the reticulated supply network
Action 4.7	Promoting sustainable water management on dryland farms
Action 4.8	Updating water supply-demand strategies
Action 4.9	Review of the Victorian uniform drought water restriction guidelines and permanent water savings rules
Action 4.10	Facilitating integrated water planning
Action 4.11	Identifying water dependent sites of cultural importance
Action 4.12	Indigenous involvement in Water Management
Action 4.13	Better coordination of regional Indigenous reference groups
Action 4.14	Using consumptive water en route
Action 4.15	Managing riparian land
Action 4.16	Changing environmental management objectives
Action 4.17	Develop Ministerial guidelines for groundwater dependant ecosystems (GDEs)

Chapter 5	Actions (click to expand/hide)
Action 5.1	Local management plans for the main river systems in South Gippsland
Action 5.2	Revised cap on the amount of unallocated surface water available for winter-fill (July to October) diversions in South Gippsland’s catchments
Action 5.3	Water supply-demand strategy – South Gippsland Water
Action 5.4	Protecting and improving the condition of South Gippsland inlets and estuaries through a continued focus on catchment management

Chapter 6	Actions (click to expand/hide)
Action 6.1	Local management plans for unregulated river systems
Action 6.2	Revised cap on the amount of unallocated surface water available for winter-fill (July to October) diversions in the Mitchell and Tambo catchments
Action 6.3	Establishing a drought reserve in Blue Rock Reservoir
Action 6.4	Improved recreational opportunities on Lake Narracan
Action 6.5	Establishing operating arrangements to improve recreation opportunities on Lake Narracan
Action 6.6	Water supply-demand strategy – Gippsland Water
Action 6.7	Additional access to water in Blue Rock Reservoir for urban use
Action 6.8	Open-cut coal mine closure and restoration strategies
Action 6.9	Water supply-demand strategy – East Gippsland Water
Action 6.10	Opportunity for additional access to water in Blue Rock Reservoir for irrigators
Action 6.11	Sharing of industrial water returns along the lower Latrobe River
Action 6.12	Development of a business case for the MID2030 project
Action 6.13	Promoting sustainable irrigation
Action 6.14	Thorpdale – opportunity to purchase additional entitlements in cases where storage capacity exceeds the annual extraction limit
Action 6.15	Additional 10 GL environmental share for the Latrobe River system
Action 6.16	Managing the new environmental entitlement for the Latrobe River
Action 6.17	Maximising environmental benefits from investments made to manage the environmental impacts of coal mining on the Latrobe tributaries
Action 6.18	Additional 8 GL environmental share for the Thomson River
Action 6.19	More flexible environmental releases from the Thomson Reservoir
Action 6.20	Managing the Gippsland Lakes
Action 6.21	Providing water to the fringing wetlands of the lower Latrobe River

Chapter 7	Actions (click to expand/hide)
Action 7.1	Local management plans for the main river systems in Far East Gippsland
Action 7.2	Revised cap on the amount of unallocated surface water available for winter-fill (July to October) diversions in Far East Gippsland’s catchments
Action 7.3	Water supply-demand strategy – East Gippsland Water
Action 7.4	Protecting Far East Gippsland’s high value rivers through a continued focus on catchment management
Action 7.5	Greater transparency in environmental water accounts and reporting for the Snowy River
Action 7.6	Environmental flows for the Victorian reaches of the Snowy River, estuary and wetlands

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