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DR MICHAEL STEWARDSON



Contact Details

Organization: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Position: SENIOR LECTURER - HYDROLOGY & WATER RESOURCES
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Homepage: www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/stewardson.html
Work: 8344 7750
Room: 421
Level: 04
Building: Engineering Block D
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering Agricultural University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1991
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1999

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Special Awards 01/01/2008
UNDERSTANDING MULTIPLE HUMAN IMPACTS ON STREAM FLOW REGIMES Chief Investigator LAND & WATER AUST High Innovation R&D Projects 01/08/2008
AIRBORNE HYPER-SPECTRAL SCANNING FOR ADVANCED MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF VEGETATION AND WATER PROPERTIES Chief Investigator FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/05/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
Predicting spatial and temporal variations in channel form 6B Chief Investigator CRC FOR CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY 01/01/2003
Development of flow ecological response models 6A Chief Investigator CRC FOR CATCHMENT HYDROLOGY 01/01/2003
Stage 2: A proposal to experimentally evaluate the effectivenss of riparian zone restoration in the streams of the Murray-Darling Basin Chief Investigator MURRAY DARLING BASIN AUTHORITY 27/01/2004
INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF SUSPENDED SOLIDS AND NUTRIENTS FOR QUEENSLAND CATCHMENTS PROJECT Chief Investigator QLD ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 01/11/2005
EWATER CRC PROJECT AGREEMENTS Chief Investigator EWATER CRC,
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE		 01/01/2006
TRIALLING THE VEFMAP ANALYTICAL APPROACH 2007 (STAGE 3) Chief Investigator EWATER CRC 01/07/2006
VICTORIAN ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (VEFMAP) (STAGE 4) Chief Investigator EWATER CRC 01/09/2008

Consultancies

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SUMMER FLOW RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GOULBURN RIVER Chief Investigator UMEE LTD
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR THE MURRAY-GOULBURN INTERCEPTOR CANAL Chief Investigator UMEE LTD
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE HYDROLOGICAL AND FLORISTIC VALUES OF PEATLANDS AND SPRING SOAK WETLANDS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND STRATHBOGIE RANGES Chief Investigator UMEE LTD
SUSTAINABLE RIVERS AUDIT FILTERS PROJECT STAGE 2 Chief Investigator UMEE LTD

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Conceptual and Mathematical Modelling in River Restoration: Do We Have Unreasonable Confidence?
    Year: 2008
    Book: River Restoration, Managing the Uncertainty in Restoring Physical Habitat
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
    Authors(s):

Journal Articles

  • Downstream hydraulic geometry of rivers in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Volume: 99
    Issue: 1-4
    Page numbers: 302-316
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  • Variability and uncertainty in reach bankfull hydraulic geometry
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 351
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 13-25
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Environmental response curves - a first step in developing environmental demand curves
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Water Down Under 2008 incorporating 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium & 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008 incorporating 31st Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium & 4th International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research
    Page numbers: 2180-2190
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
    Author(s):
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Reports

  • Remote sensing of rivers: A potential contribution to the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Rivers Audit
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Murray-Darling Basin Commission
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Hydrological impacts affecting endangered fish species: a Spanish case study
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Rivers Research and Applications
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 511-523
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  • The geomorphic and ecological effectiveness of habitat rehabilitation works: Continuous measurement of scour and fill around large logs in sand-bed streams
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Geomorphology
    Volume: 89
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 205-216
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Which confluences should we use to differentiate stream segments for management? A geomorphic assessment
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference, Australian Rivers: making a difference
    Page numbers: 473-478
    Publisher: Charles Sturt University(Wagga Wagga)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • Sustainable Rivers Audit Filters Project Stage 2
    Year: 2007
    Customer: Murray Darling Basin Commission
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaliation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Glenelg River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Broken River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Campaspe River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Goulburn River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
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  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Loddon River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
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  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Macalister River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Thomson River
    Year: 2007
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Flows that form: the hydromorphology of concave-bank formation in the Ovens River, Australia
    Year: 2006
    Book: Sediment dynamics and the hydromorphology of fluvial systems
    Publisher: IAHS Press(Wallingford)
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Journal Articles

  • Quantifying uncertainty in environmental flow assessments
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 151-160
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Reports

  • Independent Audit of Environmental Flow Provisions for the Yarra River
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Melbourne School of Enterprise
    Authors:
  • Loddon -Campaspe Drought Response Options -  Environmental Flow Management
    Year: 2006
    Customer: North Central Catchment Management Authority
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and Evaluation of Environmental Flow Releases in the Wimmera River
    Year: 2006
    Customer: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre
    Publisher: e-Water Cooperative Research Centre(Melbourne)
    Authors:
  • Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program: Monitoring and assessing environmental flow releases in the Broken River
    Year: 2006
    Customer: Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority and the Department of Sustainability and Environment
    Authors:

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Hydraulic geometry of stream reaches
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Hydrology
    Volume: 306
    Page numbers: 97-111
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Optimizing dam release rules to meet environmental flow targets
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Rivers Research and Applications
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 113-129
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Casting spells: high flow spells analysis methodology and parameterising the frequency distribution
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Comparing apples with pears: a procedure for adding geomorphology to a stream health assessment (the Victorian Index of Stream Condition)
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 274-280
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Continuous monitoring of pool habitats in sand bed streams: a new method using a pressure-transducer
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 103-107
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Do still waters run deep? Surface flow-typing as a rapid measure of hydraulic conditions for stream habitat assessments
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 306-312
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • GIS-based analysis of changes in the Goulburn River channel, Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Judging the brook by its cover: cross-sectional surface flow-typing as a rapid measure of hydraulics for broad-scale surveys of physical conditions in streams
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Linking hydrology to habitat: large woody debris, fish and pool scour in the Granite Creeks and the Snowy River
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Merging the fish, the wood and the engineer: the complex physical response to additions of woody debris
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 95-102
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • Not all benches are created equal: proposing and field testing an in-channel river bench classification, with implications for environmental flows
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 629-635
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
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  • Quanitfying uncertainty in environmental flow assessments
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Quantifying instream hydraulic habitat heterogeneity: the development of a flow-type heterogeneity index
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 78-83
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
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  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimating environmental flow requirements
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 553-561
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
    Author(s):
  • The riparian rehabilitation experiment: evolution of a practical methodology
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 4th Australian Stream Management Conference
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 40-46
    Publisher: State of Tasmania(Hobart)
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  • Using reach-scale hydraulic parameters to assess in-stream heterogeneity for environmental flow needs
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Using the River Analysis Package to quantify the effect of flow change on in-stream habitat availability
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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  • Variability in river bench elevation and the implications for environmental flow studies
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 29th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IE Aust(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Environmental Flow ANalysis
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology
    Report No:: 5/13
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
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  • Environmental Flow Analysis
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Monash)
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  • Regional Models of stream channel metrics
    Year: 2005
    Customer: CRC for CAtchment Hydrology
    Report No:: 1
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Monash)
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  • Regional models of stream channel metrics
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology
    Report No:: 5/16
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Authors:

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Evaluating stream rehabilitation projects: reasons not to, and approaches if you have to
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 57-68
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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Reports

  •  Operating Rules for the Implementation of the Lerdederg Environmental Flows Recommendations
    Year: 2004
    Customer: Sothern Rural Water and the DEpartment of Sustainability and Environment
    Authors:
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Habitat Reconstruction in Rivers
    Year: 2004
    Report No:: 04
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Monash)
    Authors:
  • Post-Fire Coarse Sediment Yield in the Upper Tambo River Basin: Results and Analysis of a Preliminary Field Survey and Literature Review
    Year: 2004
    Customer: The East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
    Authors:

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Incorporating flow variability into environmental flow regimes using the flow events method
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Rivers Research and Applications
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 459-472
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Using the river analysis package (RAP) for environmental flow studies
    Year: 2003
    Event name: About Water: 28th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Conference Publication: 28th International Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 65-71
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
    Author(s):

Reports

  • Environmental flow recommendations for the Goulburn River below Lake Eildon
    Year: 2003
    Authors:

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A demonstration of the flow events method: environmental flow requirements of the Broken River
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33-47
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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  • A stochastic model of hydraulic variations within stream channels
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Water Resources Research
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: American Geophysical Union(Washington DC)
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  • Estimating discharge at an ungauged site
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Water Resources
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-117
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • 'We don't have time for that!': Realistic approaches to evaluating stream restoration projects
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 21-28
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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  • Perspectives on the Scientific Panel approach to determining environmental flows for southeastern Australian Rivers
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Proceeding of a Workshop
    Conference Publication: Perspectives on the Scientific Panel approach to determining environmental flows for southeastern Australian Rivers
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: University of Canberra(Canberra)
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  • The number of channel cross-sections required for representing longitudinal hydraulic variability of stream reaches
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Hydrology and Water Resources symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 11-16
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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  • Variations in the flow resistance of natural channels with discharge
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium 2002
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, Melbourne 2002
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: The Institution of Engineers, Australia(Barton)
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Reports

  • Environmental Flow Determination of the Loddon River Catchment:Final Report
    Year: 2002
    Customer: North Central Catchment Management Authority and Dpartment of Natural Resources and Environment
    Publisher: Melbourne University Private(Melbourne)
    Authors:

Publications in 2001

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Applying the flow events method in an environmental flow study of the Broken River
    Year: 2001
    Event name: MODSIM 2001 Internatonal congress on modelling and simulation
    Conference Publication: MODSIM 2001 Integrating models for natural resources management across disciplines, issues and scales
    Volume: 2
    Issue: Natural Systems (Part Two)
    Page numbers: 881-886
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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  • The flow events method for developing environmental flow regimes
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 577-582
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
    Author(s):
  • Uncertainty in stream rehabilitation planning
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Conference Publication: Third Australian Stream Management Conference: the value of healthy streams
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 583-588
    Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology(Clayton)
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Reports

  • Development of a Rehabilitation Plan for the lower Thomson and Macalister Rivers: A Scoping Study
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: University of Canberra(Canberra)
    Authors:
  • Independent Review of Farm Dam Impacts in the Plenty River Catchment for the Stream Flow Management Plan
    Year: 2001
    Customer: The Plenty River Consultative Committee
    Authors:
  • Recommendations for Defining the Sustainable Diversion Limit over the Winterfill Period in Victoria Catchments, Final Report on Sustainable Diversion Limit Project
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Department of Natural Resources and Environment(Melbourne)
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  • Report of the Broken Scientific Panel on the environmental condition and flows of the Broken River and Broken Creek
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: University of Canberra(Canberra)
    Authors:
  • Snowy River Rehabilitation Monitoring, Physical Aspects
    Year: 2001
    Customer: East Gippsland Catchment Managment Authority
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
    Authors:
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