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By monitoring our waterways we can obtain a picture of catchment health.
Over time, monitoring can provide information on the state of our catchments, which can assist with the maintenance and rehabilitation of our waterways.
Monitoring can also:
- Screen for potential water quality problems
- Generate data to assist catchment management decision making processes
- Help to identify actions that should be taken to solve catchment health problems
- Provide learning opportunities for the local community (including schools) and encourage responsible catchment management and use
- Support and assist other monitoring programs undertaken by state agencies and local government
Tips to better monitoring and data
September 2004
- All sample bottles and buckets should be rinsed twice with the water you are sampling prior to collecting samples for testing.
- 'A picture is worth a thousand words'. Photographs provide an excellent record of exactly how a stream changes. Before and after pictures are valuable in depicting stream alteration.
- If you choose to take your sample away from your site, remember to number each container with the site number, time of collection, parameter to be tested and other details to avoid mix ups.
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