WALGA and Perth NRM jointly hosted an event on Wetland Management and Restoration in September 2018.
The event focused on interventions to address wetland water quality issues, such as algal blooms and aquatic weeds, as well as successful wetland restoration techniques that have transformed degraded sites into thriving ecosystems.
The presentations can be found below:
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Program
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Improving Water Quality in Urban Lakes and Wetlands (Helen Brookes, Urbaqua)
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Constructed feature lakes - health issues, guidance and management (Jared Koutsoukos, Department of Health)
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Trial of a solar powered nutrient stripping basin at Yangebup lake (Adam Harris, City of Cockburn)
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Transformation of a degraded wetland at Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary (Jeremy Maher, City of Bayswater; Simon Cleary, GHD)
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Addressing the challenge of managing local lake water quality (Jeff Cosgrove, DBCA)
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Amazon frogbit - a weed to watch out for (Amy Krupa, SERCUL)
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Protecting, repairing and creating wetlands in the Ellen Brook and Brockman River catchments (Rosanna Hindmarsh, Ellen Brockman Integrated Catchment Group)