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Monitoring during summer 2014 and autumn 2015 found environmental flows during those seasons had triggered golden perch spawning and encouraged bank-stabilising plant growth.

Residents are invited to attend a second round of community meetings for the Granite Creeks flood study, one of 10 regional scale flood mapping projects underway across the state.

If you are planning to expand your dairy operation and want to know how to manage the extra effluent, come to the Dairy Effluent Field Day being held on Thursday March 3, at Ardmona.

The Australian Government welcomes Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority's announcement that 20 private landholders will share in $400,000 in grants under the National Landcare Programme.

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA) today reassured the community Goulburn River water quality was good despite discolouration in some sections of the river below Murchison.

Goulburn Broken CMA is keen to hear from anyone who has noticed Eastern Great Egrets nesting in the area.

Fallen limbs and dead trees from a property adjoining Hughes Creek have been used to provide additional shelter in the upstream end of a gorge known to be the creek’s Macquarie perch stronghold.

Three free information sessions to provide detailed information to local land managers about the upcoming release of a new strain of rabbit calici virus, are being held at Euroa on January 19 and at Mansfield and Yea on January 20.

Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA) is working with the Taggerty Community Progress Group (TCPG) and Taggerty community to tackle blackberry and honeysuckle along the Little River.

An innovative Community Leadership Program specifically designed for those working or volunteering in the Agriculture and Natural Resource Management sectors will be delivered in the Goulburn Murray region during the first half of 2016.

Run-off from creeks after heavy rain on January 3 was causing sections of the Goulburn River to look darker than usual, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA) River and Wetland Health Program Manager Mark Turner said.

More than nine thousand farming properties in the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID) will be surveyed during the next three months to determine changes in land and water use.

Residents living within the Whiteheads Creek catchment are encouraged to contact the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA) with information about the amount of rain that fell on their properties on Sunday, January 3.

A series of information session are being held later this month to provide communities with an update on the outcomes of the current investigations in to the feasibility of easing constraints on the Goulburn River.

Hot weather and low or no inflows may affect the quality and quantity of water in some of the region’s rivers, creeks and wetlands this summer, warns Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA) Environmental Water Manager Simon Casanelia.