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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Estuary Catchment Total Suspended Solids Loads

Annual average loads of Total Suspended Solids have been estimated for all 184 NSW coastal catchments. Land use in each catchment was assigned to one of nine categories and event mean concentrations of TSS for each land use determined from literature review and field studies. Flow was estimated using a modified version of the 2CSalt catchment rainfall-runoff model. Using these two inputs, loads under current land use and hypothetical natural land use were derived.

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Language English
Edition Not known
Purpose This estuary dataset was developed under a new Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (MER) Program initiated by the NSW Government in 2007 to assess and better manage the health of natural resources across the State. The MER Program is in response to the NSW Natural Resources MER Strategy which has the objective of providing appropriate information for decision-making by natural resource managers.
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords MARINE-Estuaries
Metadata Date 2009-06-30
Date of Asset Creation 2009-06-30
Date of Asset Publication 2010-08-20
Date of Next Update 2010-08-20
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 0
Geospatial Topic Geoscientific information
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Temporal Coverage From 2009-06-30
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2010"