Contaminant export rate and budgeting

The SCA's contaminant export rate and budgeting project is a joint program with the CSIRO, Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Catchment Hydrology, University of Western Sydney and Australian Water Technologies.

This project aims to provide the most accurate, currently available information on export rates for contamination arising from diffuse pollution sources found on SCA land.

The literature is being critically reviewed and interpreted in the local context (soils, land uses, management practices, climate) with an expert workshop program providing peer review.

Outputs will be used to assist with the assessment of neutral or beneficial effect and in prioritising catchment rectification actions.

Following the review stage, data from long-term export measurement experiments will fill the most critical knowledge gaps identified. These will measure the benefits of the catchment rectifications already performed under the Regional Plan and Catchment Enhancement and Protection Program.