A total of 7 threat abatement strategies have been identified to help tackle this key threatening process. Each of these strategies has a number of priority actions within it. The table below shows these strategies and priority actions. You can also see details of the broad geographic regions each priority action applies to in New South Wales.
| Description of priority action | Priority |
|---|
| Threat abatement strategy: Community and land-holder liaison/ awareness and/or education |
| Prepare and implement an education and community awareness publicity campaign to increase knowledge on the impacts of alteration of natural flow regimes on biodiversity. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Establish management agreements with public authorities CMAs and land managers/owners |
| Continue to support Ramsar Managers Network. | High |
| Whole of government approach for the development of a threat abatement program to address impacts to marine and terrestrial biodiversity caused by altered flow regimes. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2009. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| To continue to research impacts of altered flow regimes on biodiversity, water quality and quantity. | High |
| Modelling of impacts of salinity, climate change and water resource development. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Review NSW Fisheries Scientific Committee determination for installation and operation of in stream structures that modify flow and NSW Weirs Policy for consideration of the preparation of a joint TAP for both KTPs with DPI (Fisheries). | High |
| Support the implementation of the NSW Water Reforms and the Water Management Act 2000. | High |
| Support water sharing planning programs and initiatives. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Determine impacts of altered flow regimes on marine and terrestrial biodiversity, with reference to structures affecting flow, mechanisms that affect flow and affected threatened species and communities. | High |
| Identify mechanisms for abatement of impacts, e.g.. Weirs removals program, causeway and culvert modification, habitat rehabilitation, instigation of ecological flows. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Survey/Mapping and Habitat assessment |
| Identify Rivers and Wetlands of high conservation value for biodiversity. | High |
| Survey and map structures altering water regimes with respect to affected threatened species and communities. | Medium |
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