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Aquatic sediments – Management response

Aquatic sediments – Management response

Flow chart showing the major elements associated with aquatic sediment management

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Management practices to reduce 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 watershed
  • Wind breaks

Additional information


Last updated: 22 March 2013

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2013) Aquatic sediments – Management response, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/management/pressures/lacustrine-palustrine-threats/aquatic-sediments/management.html

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