The River Health Action Plan - Catchment Works Program aims to reduce pathogens from entering the kanamaluka/Tamar estuary. The program achieves this by excluding grazing and dairy stock from waterways within the catchment, improving effluent management on dairy farms as well as investigating and mitigating cross-connections in Launceston’s separated stormwater system.
In 2018 under the Launceston City Deal, the Australian and Tasmanian governments jointly committed funding for the River Health Action Plan (RHAP). The funding supports priority projects to improve Launceston’s combined sewerage and stormwater system and the Catchment Works Program. NRM North was selected as the preferred delivery partner to support actions across dairy, grazing and urban areas. These land uses are the three largest contributors to pathogen loads in the greater estuary catchment and are also major controllable sources of nutrient and sediment loads.
These four short videos highlight the works being done through the Catchment Works Program to reduce pathogens entering the Tamar estuary.
What is the being done in catchment works program, and why?
What are pathogens and why do we need to keep them out of our waterways?
What grants are available to support grazing and dairy landholders keep pathogens out of waterways?
How are we reducing pathogens from entering the separated stormwater system in Launceston?