Title: Catchment Based Water Quality Modelling in Urbanising Catchments in Australia
Abstract: The quality of catchment runoff and of discharges from point and distributed sources including sewer overflows and the impact of these discharges on receiving waters is of increasing concern throughout Australia. When preparing management plans for catchments undergoing land use change three issues of concern are consistently identified by the community. These issues are flooding and drainage, water quality and riparian vegetation. In particular, the impact of urbanisation on water quality is now viewed as a central issue. The XP-AQUALM catchment based water quality modelling package is being increasingly used in Australia to investigate water quality issues when preparing catchment management strategies and plans. The features of the XP-AQUALM packages are overviewed. The use of the package to assess water quality impacts of uncontrolled and controlled development in the urbanising Oxley Creek (54 km2) catchment is presented. The resulting strategy for stormwater pollution control is also outlined. It is concluded that the case study demonstrates the ability of the XP-AQUALM catchment based water quality package to assess the impacts of land use change and point source and non-point source pollution in order to formulate management plans for urbanising catchments that are environmentally sustainable.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-11-21
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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