River Health Targets

The Victorian River Health Strategy was released in 2002. The strategy set statewide targets to be achieved by 2011, including:

• significant improvements achieved in environmental flow regimes of 20 high value river reaches currently flow stressed
• 4800 km of rivers with improvement of one rating in the measurement of riparian condition
• an increase of 7000 ha of riparian areas under management agreements
• 95% of all highland and upland and 60% of all lowland monitoring sites will meet SEPP environmental quality objectives
• 600 km of rivers where in-stream habitat has been reinstated
• 1000 high value public assets provided with appropriate level of protection
• an improvement in the status of designated freshwater-dependent focal species.