Healthy Waterways Strategy

Workshop #2 29 November 2017

Yarra Catchment Collaboration

Recap of Workshop 1

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• Why a collaborative strategy?

• Yarra Strategic Plan

• Snapshot of the Catchment – MW

• Snapshot of the Catchment – everyone else

• Goals

The Strategy Wheel

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“It was a good event yesterday I thought, one of the better ones I’ve been to and certainly the best

from a community involvement perspective.”

“It is important to consider the Yarra River as one entity,

fully connected from its source to its estuary”

2017 OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY

Workshop 1 10 October

HWS Goals and vision

Community engagement & Vision development

Yarra Strategic Plan

Ongoing co-ownership and collaboration

24 days Actions and targets December- Feb

25 days Mar- May Strategy drafting

Timeline

FEBRUARY

Goals working group Community

Assembly

Reference group

Scenarios for Actions and Targets (based on workshop 2 data)

Workshop 2 29 Nov

Workshop 3 March

Establishing 10 yr outcomes, priorities and ongoing collaboration.

Drafting strategy

Finalise a draft strategy

MARCH

Workshop 4 April

Emerging directions

MAY APRIL

Objectives for today

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• To re-connect as a group and to build / strengthen relationships

• To celebrate the success of the volunteer group – and hear where they got to on the Goals

• To learn more about the Science – the impacts of urbanisation and climate change – Dr. Yung En Chee from Melbourne Uni.

• Using the draft goals and our understanding of the catchment values and threats, start to identify opportunities and actions we can undertake to meet the goals

Agenda for today

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Catchment Goals

Yarra Strategic Plan Update

Dr Yung En Chee: • Understanding key threats – climate change and urbanisation • Model supports

Work together on opportunities and actions • What actions and opportunities can you support? • How do you want to be involved

PROGRAM LOGIC

Program logic

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• Program logic is like a roadmap for a project that sets out how a project/program or strategy will achieve its desired outcomes

• It shows the relationships between your planned work and the intended results.

• The Healthy Waterways Strategy program logic is in place to ensure that the planned management opportunities will protect, maintain or improve the status of the key values.

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Catchment vision

Catchment goals

Key value targets

(Environmental) condition targets

Management outcome targets

Management opportunities

Changes to the level of threats

Target met beyond the life of the strategy

Target met within the implementation period of the strategy

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The Maribyrnong River and its tributaries are important bio-links – corridors of secure, high quality habitats that allow plants and animals to move and adapt to changes in catchment conditions and climate.

A Maribyrnong catchment whose ecological health has significantly improved since 2018…

Activity

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We are building on the work from workshop #1

We will use the goals and information on the key values to identify management activities (actions)

Break into smaller groups in two rooms (13 tables = 12 areas + whole catchment)

There will be two rounds - opportunity to work on two areas

Start on the area that you are most familiar with

1st round – 30 minutes

2nd round – 25 minutes

Report – 20 minutes

Hear from the other room & sensing sheets – 10 min

We have lots of info in the handouts and maps about the values and threats within the catchment, which will help guide our decisions on management opportunities, activities and actions.

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Environmental values maps

Values assessment

Activity and table facilitators

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Steels & Pauls

Watts Woori Yallock

Lt Yarra & Hoddles,

Yarra rural

Yarra source

Will Steele

Belinda Lovell

James Frazer

Cheryl Edwards

Leigh Smith

Merri

Gardiners, Koonung, Mullum Mullum

Stringybark, Olinda, Brushy

Plenty

Darebin

Diamond & Watsons

Yarra Middle & Lower

Matt Mulqueeney

Rachael Hart

Andrew Downing

Helen Knight

Rhys Coleman

Rob Molloy Rob Considine

Whole of catchme

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Rachelle Adamovitz

Room 1 Theme catcher: Rachael Hart

Facilitator Geoff Brown

Room 2 Theme catcher: Steve Hosking

Facilitator: Geraldine Plas

Activity Draft goals

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1. Protect and improve the significant environmental values and ecological processes of all of the Yarra Catchment waterways. 2. Riparian and instream habitats provide landscape connectivity that allows movement of native species and resilient populations. 3. Cultural and heritage values are recognised, protected, maintained and improved. 4. People appreciate waterways and use them appropriately for active and passive recreation that supports mental and physical well-being. 5. An engaged and knowledgeable community in the Yarra catchment acts to protect and promote waterway values. Our waterways are a place of continuous learning. 6. The waterways of the Yarra Catchment support potable water supply, agriculture, industry and tourism in a balanced and sustainable manner. 7. Urban and rural waterways are protected and improved through innovation and cooperation.

Purpose To identify a set of environmental, social, economic and cultural actions that will enable us to, together, achieve the catchment goals. How • 1st round – 30 minutes • 2nd round – 25 minutes • Report – 20 minutes • Hear from the other room &

sensing sheets – 10 min

Draft Yarra Catchment Goals

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1. Protect and improve the significant environmental values and ecological processes of all of the Yarra Catchment waterways. 2. Riparian and instream habitats provide landscape connectivity that allows movement of native species and resilient populations. 3. Cultural and heritage values are recognised, protected, maintained and improved. 4. People appreciate waterways and use them appropriately for active and passive recreation that supports mental and physical well-being. 5. An engaged and knowledgeable community in the Yarra catchment acts to protect and promote waterway values. Our waterways are a place of continuous learning. 6. The waterways of the Yarra Catchment support potable water supply, agriculture, industry and tourism in a balanced and sustainable manner. 7. Urban and rural waterways are protected and improved through innovation and cooperation.

Next steps

• Management opportunities will be ‘tested’ for feasibility, cost effectiveness and ability to contribute to improving, maintaining or protecting the key environmental values.

• We will use a range of tools to do this including:

• Conceptual models about the key values • Habitat suitability models • Expert opinion • Engagement with key delivery partners

• Reference group

Your Say

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