Water Quality Information

For information about water quality parameters temperature, pH, turbidity, salinity (as indicated by electrical conductivity), and the nutrients nitrates and phosphorus, download this PDF document:

Water Quality Background Notes

A range of information relating to water quality, water resources, waterways, wetlands, stormwater, and water planning and supply is available on these web sites:

Department of Water - www.water.wa.gov.au

Water Corporation - www.watercorporation.com.au

Department of Environment and Conservation - www.dec.wa.gov.au

Australian and New Zealand Conservation Council (ANZECC) web site on water quality standards - www.mincos.gov.au/nwqms_docs.htm

Catchment Information

For information on your local catchment areas see the Regional Page on this web site, or the following sites:

Perth Area

Swan River Trust - www.swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au

Swan Catchment Council - www.swancatchmentcouncil.org

South West

South West Catchments Council - www.swcatchmentscouncil.com.au

Peel Harvey Catchment Couincil - www.peel-harvey.org.au

Blackwood Basin Group - www.bbg.mysouthwest.com.au

GeoCatch - www.geocatch.asn.au

South West Aboriginal Sea and Land Council - www.noongar.org.au

South Coast

South Coast Initiative Planning Scheme (SCRIPT) - www.script.asn.au

Avon Region

Avon Catchment Council - www.avonicm.org.au

Northern Agricultural Region

Northern Agricultural Catchments Council - www.nacc.com.au

There are several excellent books that look at waterways in the South West of Western Australia and should be available in local libraries. They include:

Balla, S. 1994, Wetlands of the Swan Coastal Plain Volume 1 Their Nature and Management, Water Authority and Department of Environmental Protection

Brearley, Anne. 2005, Ernest Hodgkin's SWANLAND Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons of South-western Australia, University of Western Australia Press

Pen, Dr Luke J., 1999, Managing Our Rivers; A guide to the nature and management of the streams of south-west Western Australia, Water and Rivers Commission

Seddon, G. 1972, Sense of Place: a response to an environment, the Swan Coastal Plain Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press

There is a series of 'Waterfacts' available through the Department of Water and Department of Environment and Conservation.

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"By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories, and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."

From The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Ribbons of Blue/Waterwatch WA

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