Cootamundra
Indicator: Surface Water Quality
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What the results tell us for Cootamundra
Cootamundra Shire is in both the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Catchment Management Authorities. No data was available for surface water quality for the current reporting period in Cootamundra Shire.
The Shire has commenced a partnership project with the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority to reduce the amount of salt being mobilised from Bradman Oval into Muttama Creek. The project received $155,000 from the Australian and NSW Governments National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, with Cootamundra Shire Council contributing $35,000 of in-kind support. Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority has also formed partnerships with 11 other local councils across the Murrumbidgee catchment to tackle urban salinity. (Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority, 2006)
References
Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority, 2006, Improving Flows into Muttama Creek, State of New South Wales – Murrumbidgee CMA 19 September 2007, viewed at http://www.murrumbidgee.cma.nsw.gov.au/index.php?id=113&tx_ttnews%5Byear%5D=2007&
tx_ttnews%5Bmonth%5D=09&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=178&tx_ttnews%5Bcat%5D
=4&cHash=71e951e8e3 on 8 October 2008
MDBC, 2008, Sustainable Rivers Audit – A report on the Ecological Health of rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin, 2004-2007, Murray Darling Basin Commission, SRA Report 1, June 2008. Viewed at http://www.mdbc.gov.au/SRA on 10 October 2008.
