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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 - Western Australia
KEEP RIVER
Assessment Of River Condition
The Keep River Basin is a northern catchment in the Kimberly which is partly located in the Northern Territory with a tropical monsoon climate. It has natural vegetation savanna woodland and tidal mudflats. Land use includes cattle grazing on pastoral leases and some lead mining.
The Keep River (WA, 81007) Basin (810) ARCE was largely unmodified and the ARCB was non-assessed. The basin condition was largely unmodified based on the hydrological disturbance index, moderately modified based on the catchment disturbance index, largely unmodified based on the habitat index and non-assessed by the nutrient and suspended load index.
Environment Index
Biota Index
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KEEP 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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