Management - Aquatic Sediments

Management practices to reduce the load of sediment entering a wetland:

• Adequate buffer zones
• Application of artificial and natural means for preventing erosion
• Appropriate cropping (e.g. cover crops, trash blanketing, controlled traffic, filter strips) practices
• Appropriate environmental flow releases
• Appropriate stock grazing regimes for land type
• Avoidance of structural disturbance of the wetland
• Boat speed limits
• Conservation tillage methods
• Construction (to best practice standard) of contours, detention reservoirs, sedimentation ponds, or settling basins
• Farm management systems (soils)
• Fire management plans
• Minimal disturbance of the foreshore/bank
• Point source licensing and enforcement
• Presence of conservation buffers
• Proper repair and maintenance of drainage ditches and levees
• Reduction of sediment excesses arising from construction activities
• Revegetation (wetland/fringing zone/catchment, reduce bare ground)
• Sealing roads/curbing
• Use of land and water management best (or recommended) practices on the water-shed
• Wind breaks

Management practice indicators Management practice indicator:% of farms using current best management practices (sediments) Management practice indicator:% of urban area under an active urban stormwater management plan