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B INTRODUCTION In the early 1990's increasing development pressures and use of Brisbane Water reached a point where the community became concerned over the apparent deterioration of the estuary and considered that Brisbane Water should be better managed. Approaches were made to the State Government by community organisations and as a result, the State Government approached Council to determine if it would be interested in preparing a Plan of Management for Brisbane Water. The Council initially formed a committee of interested persons to prepare a brief for preparation of a Management Plan for Brisbane Water. This Steering Committee reported to the Council that it considered that a committee should be established to prepare a Stage 1 Report on the management of Brisbane Water. At the same time, Council had requested the State Government to establish a Catchment Management Committee within its area to include the catchment of Brisbane Water. The Government was in the process of establishing a number of catchment management committees in the populated coastal areas of NSW and the Gosford area was to be one of these committees. Therefore, the Council in formulating a method of preparing the Brisbane Water Plan of Management resolved to prepare the work for an initial stage in which it was not to become involved in matters which were properly the business or concerns of a catchment management committee. Thus, the stage 1 work of the Brisbane Water Plan of Management was to relate to the water areas where the primary concern was not the runoff from the catchment areas and where the matters proposed would not impact on the work of a catchment management committee in any negative sense. It was in this context that the Brisbane Water Plan of Management Committee was formed, however, in its early meetings it discussed the factor that many of its actions and much of its work would be controlled in the future by matters that occurred within the catchment and so the committee resolved to name itself the Brisbane Water Plan of Management and Catchment Management Stage 1 Committee. Brisbane Water Plan of Management - July 1995 Page ii
C EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Brisbane Water Plan of Management and Catchment Management Stage 1 Committee comprises a combination of representatives from various government departments associated with the waterway, of Council representatives, and of community representatives interested in the waterway. The committee co-opted a large number of specialist persons and organisations associated with the use and management of the waterway to assist in preparing information for the committee to prepare this plan of management. The community representatives' work has been voluntary and excessively demanding of their time and they are thanked for their valuable contribution. The Stage 1 work does not attempt to take into account the problems that may be developing because of poor management of the catchment or the way that the catchment is managed. This stage of the work has looked at the waterway and the aspects of the waterway not directly affected by catchment inputs. Because the Catchment Management Committee has to be formed and its work will be ensuring that the inputs from the catchments are properly managed, it was decided at the establishment of this committee, that it would be able to more quickly come to a satisfactory result for the matters relating directly to the waterway but that these matters would be complimented by the work done by the Catchment Management Committee at a later date. During the committee work, this was discussed many times and it is anticipated that the resulting document for the Stage 1 work will be able to be used by the Catchment Management Committee as a component of its work. It is expected to only require routine review and adjustment once the general catchment management work is completed. The committee's work included some technical study of the depth of Brisbane Water using sophisticated electronic measuring devices and an environmental study was carried out to determine the water quality of the water body primarily as a lead in to the Stage 2 work. The water quality work also involves sediment studies and the results of these studies have enabled a more detailed insight into the sedimentology of Brisbane Water and the changes that have occurred over this century. The majority of the work in preparing this plan has involved the gathering of information and data from the Sub-Committees, Government Authorities and the Task Groups who were set up to assist with the committee's work. Wherever possible, specialists in the field have been used and these specialists have been for the most part residents of the Gosford City area who know the waterway well, its history or its usage and have been people who are interested and involved in retaining the qualities of the waterway that the community would like to see well managed. The Plan of Management Stage 1 takes into account many facets of waterway management as follows: * The natural areas that should be preserved because of their vegetation and benefits of that vegetation to the waterway both visual and biological. * The intertidal areas which are valuable for bird life and as fish nursery areas. * The areas of the waterway that are used for active recreation and the associated access areas that enable the waterway to be adequately accessed for that recreation. * The identification of the mariculture areas particularly for the cultivation of oysters. Brisbane Water Plan of Management - July 1995 Page iii
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