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In this section you will find detailed information, including national overviews and state and regional level assessments, from the 2000-2002 National Land and Water Resources Audit theme assessments.
Rivers - Assessment of River Condition - New South Wales
HASTINGS RIVER
Assessment Of River Condition
The Hastings Camden Haven catchment of some 4500 square kilometres is situated on the Mid North Coast and extends from the New England tablelands to the Pacific Ocean, encompassing 84 km of coastline. The catchment comprises two major rivers, the Hastings, and the Camden Haven which flows through coastal lakes to the sea. Mean annual rainfall at Port Macquarie is 1550 mm, falling to 1320 mm at Wauchope. Comboyne rainfall is characterised by high intensity storms and averages 1840 mm per annum. Large areas of State Forest and National Park occur in the steep upper reaches of the catchment and on the coast.
The Hastings River Basin (207) ARCE was moderately modified and the ARCB was in reference condition. The basin condition was non-assessed by the hydrological disturbance index, moderately modified based on the catchment disturbance index, largely unmodified based on the habitat index and substantially modified based on the nutrient and suspended load index.
Environment Index
Biota Index
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HASTINGS RIVER
Environment Index scores compared to Biota Index scores for all reaches.
Further Information
- Exit to more information on the AUSRIVAS for an introduction, models, taxonomy and downloads.
- Assessment of River Condition: and audit of the ecological condition of Australian rivers (by R. Norris, I. Prosser, B. Young, P. Liston, N. Bauer, N. Davies, F. Dyer, S. Linke, and M. Thoms)(PDF 4418 KB)
- View the Audit's Australian Catchment, River and Estuary Assessment 2002
- View the Audit's Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001
- Link to Data Library to download data and metadata
- Link to the Map Maker to make a map using this information.
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