This report describes a major effort in hydraulic modelling of the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest undertaken by the Scientific Services Division of the Department of Environment and Climate Change in collaboration with NSW Department of Water and Energy, Forests NSW, the Murray Darling Basin Commission and NSW Department of Commerce. The work has been done to support development of the environmental watering plans envisaged in The Living Murray Initiative, engineering designs of the Torrumbarry Cutting, and to assist in implementation of basin-scale hydrological models to incorporate the effects of environmental flow diversions from the Murray River. A comprehensive hydraulic model for the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest has been developed in this work by using a multidisciplinary approach, and the science that underpins the hydraulic model has been externally reviewed and is described in detail in this report. A robust technology in wetland modelling has been developed and demonstrated for the Forest Flood Enhancement Project, and its generalisation to other important wetlands warrants consideration.
Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Flood Enhancement Project
Koondrook-Perricoota Forest (KPF) is one of the six Icon sites that will benefit under The Living Murray Initiative established by the Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council in 2002.
- Date
- 1 April 2008
- Publisher
- Department of Environment and Climate Change
- Type
- Publication
- Cost
- Free
- Language
- English
- Tags
- ISBN 978-1-74122-672-0
- ID DECC20080561
- File PDF 6.5MB
- Pages 48
- Name koondrook-perricoota-forest-flood-enhancement-project-080561.pdf
