Finke River Waterholes Monitoring Report - Lake Eyre Basins Assessment (LEBRA) December 2019 - November 2020
Details:
Title
Finke River Waterholes Monitoring Report - Lake Eyre Basins Assessment (LEBRA) December 2019 - November 2020,
Creator
Eldridge, Steve,
Collection
E-Publications,
E-Books,
PublicationNT,
DEPWS Report Number 24/2021,
Date
2020-11-01,
Location
Finke River,
Abstract
The Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment (LEBRA) Program is a cooperative initiative between the Australian, Queensland, South Australian and Northern Territory governments established to monitor the environmental condition of LEB rivers, contribute to periodic reporting of condition (e.g. State of the Basin reports) and build ecological understanding of watercourses and catchments.
In the Northern Territory, LEBRA monitoring occurs on the Finke River system and focuses on five permanent riverine waterholes considered to be long-term refugia for fish and other aquatic fauna: 2-Mile Waterhole, Running Waters, Ellery Creek Big Hole, Snake Hole and Big Salty Waterhole (Fig 1). The program involves systematic collection of data on fish, water quality and hydrology, with sampling usually conducted twice yearly in Autumn and Spring.
This report summarises the results of surveys conducted in December 2019 and November 2020. The December 2019 survey sampled only 2-mile Waterhole (upper and lower pools) while the November 2020 survey sampled all five sites. Autumn sampling in 2020 was not possible due to COVID-19 movement restrictions.,
Notes
Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),
Table of contents
Introduction -- Methods -- Water Quality Measurement -- Fish Survey -- Results -- River Flows -- Water Quality -- December 2019 -- November 2020 -- Fish Survey -- December 2019 -- November 2020 -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References,