Rivers

Stream bank erosion and flood management

You can use this power point presentation to reflect local riparian characteristics, by inserting photos and examples from your region.

The powerpoint presentation has notes to accompany each slide, explaining the key point being made and how you might explain it to others.

Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

This report provides the required background resource material to enable proceeding to the implementation stage of an assessment of the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin.

Assessing the health of Ephemeral Rivers

Assessing the geomorphic and hydrologic aspects of ephemeral rivers is an important part of measuring their health. Ideally, a few accurate, repeatable, rapid measurements would describe their condition and allow changes to be assessed over time. Researchers and managers have developed a large number (hundreds) of hydrologic and geomorphologic indicators which are summarised in this review. Often a suite of indicators, developed by a management agency, will be applied to streams in a (more)...

Assessing the potential for algal blooms in clear water phase tropical rivers

Algal blooms commonly occur in rivers across southern Australia and worldwide. Blooms and their associated biota cause taste and odour problems that are a constant source of complaints to water authorities.