North Central Catchment Management Authority, Victoria
Recent surveys carried out by North Central CMA as part of the Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment Program are showing the Campaspe River is bouncing back better after the 2022 floods than those in 2011. After more than a decade of environmental flows and riverbank revegetation and protection the riverbanks are healthier than after the 2011 floods, and key fish populations have replenished almost immediately.
“A key aim of environmental flows is to build resilience to protect the river from regulation and climate change” said North Central CMA Environmental Assets Program Manager Nicole Bullen. “We’ve constructed more than 100km of fencing, controlled 668ha of weeds, and revegetated 576ha of the banks, and it has paid off.”
