At Seqwater we believe potential risks from land use activities can be reduced through the application of appropriate policy and planning across our catchments.
Most dams are located in open catchments – making it imperative to coexist with a variety of urban and rural land uses.
Seqwater strives for positive improvements in existing land use planning, development controls, and land management processes for the enhancement of water quality protection and water productivity from the catchments.
We interact with, and in many ways depend on, a wide variety of stakeholders that include local governments, individual and traditional landholders, and several state government agencies involved in various aspects of water and land management.
Seqwater publishes development guidelines as an important reference for developers and determining authorities as well as a range of other materials designed to encourage sustainable catchments, urban water management and the protection of water quality.
Planning activity undertaken by Seqwater to ensure sustainable water quality and productive catchments includes:
- undertaking catchment-integrated risk assessments and developing innovative solutions to mitigate these risks.
- collaboration with local governments and regulatory agencies regarding development and activities within the catchments. This includes the promotion of riparian buffer lands to enhance water quality in waterways and storages.
- development of tools and resources that inform and support catchment development.
- participation in regional planning forums with regulators and the community to promote and inform catchment management processes.