Down to Earth

South East Queensland Division

Down to Earth

Erosion and Sediment Management Conference

6-8 September 2005

Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns

The Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, and the International Erosion Control Association, is hosting a three day conference aimed at fostering robust discussion about current problems and issues associated with erosion and sediment management.

The conference will discuss best practice erosion management in a range of industries such as development, construction, building, agriculture and mining sectors

The purpose of the conference and workshop is to:

Explore the environmental impacts associated with erosion and sediment discharge;

Build awareness and promote competency among the construction, building, agriculture and mining sectors;

Highlight best practice erosion and sediment management techniques for the different industry and land management sectors;

Debate how best to raise the benchmark in erosion and sediment management practices with policy makers and regulators, including incentives and regulatory requirements.

The conference will also discuss the current regulatory requirements and will debate a range of policy options, including incentives and regulatory tools, that will lead to change for better erosion and sediment management.

All industries and governments agree - we need to improve now! But how?

Presentations now available.

Purchase the conference presentation CD for $49 (inc gst and postage). The CD includes presentations (listed below) in PDF format, the conference handbook with session synopsis and speaker biographies and the latest copy of the program. To purchase a CD

To download PDF copies of the presentations, please click on the relevant speaker below.

Tuesday 5 September 2005

Time

Title

Speaker

9.35am – 10.00am

Consideration of sediment and nutrient transfer from Queensland river catchments to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon

Joe Baker – DPIF

329kb

Time

Title

Speaker

10.00am – 10.30am

A Grazing Industry Perspective

Roger Landsberg – Trafalgar Pastoral Company 406kb

Erosion – Problems and their solutions – A Grazing Industry Perspective - paper by Roger Landsberg 33kb

Time

Title

Speaker

11.00am – 11.20am

Effects of soil erosion and sedimentation on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier

Katharina Fabricius -Australian Institute of Marine Science 370kb

International Society for Reef Studies - Briefing paper 3 - Katharina Fabricius 448kb

Time

Title

Speaker

11.20am – 11.40am

A construction industry perspective

Frank Ellison – Watpac

Time

Title

Speaker

11.40am – 12noon

Status to Actions: Pathways to Implementation

Will our current approach have the impact on the ground that we hope for?

Sheridan Morris - CSIRO

1.24mb

Time

Title

Speaker

12:00noon -12:30pm

Reef at Risk (Fisheries at Risk)

John Rainbird - Cairns and Far Northern Environment Council

511kb

Time

Title

Speaker

2.00pm – 2.30pm

Australian Government perspective – GBRMPA

Reef Water Quality Protection Plan

Mr Hugh Yorkston &

Andrea Leverington – GBRMPA

395kb

Time

Title

Speaker

2.30pm – 3.00pm

State government perspective – DPI&F

Overview of policy on industry /government partnership approaches such as the Farm management system

Tony Roberts - DPIF

50kb

Time

Title

Speaker

3.30pm - 4.00pm

State government perspective - NRM

Overview of policy - NRM Soil Conservation Act. rural leasehold land strategy, etc

Mick Capelin - NR&M

210kb

Time

Title

Speaker

4.00pm - 4.20pm

State government perspective – EPA

Overview of policy - EP Act, Coastal Act and programs, Reefplan, Coastal Management Plans, etc

Debbie Best – EPA

897kb

Time

Title

Speaker

4:20pm - 4.50pm

EPA case study

Ian Pepper – EPA

138kb

Wednesday 7 September 2005

Time

Title

Speaker

9.00am – 9.30am

Erosion processes and factors – understanding soil erosion and pathways in the environment.

Chris Carroll – NR&M

5.9mb

BEST PRACTICE

The following session was to provide an overview of the guidelines / benchmarks available. The session was split into two streams in recognition of the different guidelines for use in the two streams

Stream 1 – Agricultural/Regional

Time

Title

Speaker

9.30am – 10.00am

Best practice guidelines for erosion and sediment control in agriculture and land management - Presentation of the “Soil Conservation Measures Design Manual for Queensland”

Bruce Carey – NR&M

1mb

The Department of Natural Resources and Mines is producing a manual on the design of soil conservation measures, which aims to capture the available knowledge on this topic for use by private consultants and staff employed by regional bodies. Eleven chapters are already on the NR&M website at http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/land/management/erosion/design_manual.html

Time	Title	Speaker
10.00am – 10.30am	Overview of existing and proposed Codes of Practice for Agriculture	Tim Wrigley - Canegrowers 201kb

Time	Title	Speaker
10.45am – 11.00am	Best practice in grazing industries re the Grazing Land Management approach	Mick Quirk – DPIF 684kb

Time	Title	Speaker
11.15am – 11.30am	Applying best Practice for Horticulture	John Bagshaw – DPIF 301kb

Time	Title	Speaker
11.30am – 11.45am	Applying best Practice for Cane	Alan Hurney – BSES 140kb

Time	Title	Speaker
11.45am – 12 noon	Broadacre Farming	David Freebairn – NR&M 1.4mb

Erosion Issues – How do they affect your sector?

Time

Title

Speaker

1.35pm – 1.55pm

FBA empowers communities for a sustainable CQ

Gavin Peck and Nathan Johnson – Fitzroy Basin Assoc 2.13mb

Time	Title	Speaker
1.55pm – 2.05pm	Practical Landcare at the Property Level.	Bruce Corcoran - Mulgrave Land Care Group - not available

Time	Title	Speaker
2.05pm – 2.15pm	Profitable Farms / Healthy Catchments / Sustaining the Wet Tropics	Jim Turnour - DPIF 260kb

Stream 2 – Construction/Civil/Mining

Time	Title	Speaker
9.30am – 10.00am	The fundamentals of construction site erosion and sediment control – what is best practice?	Michael Frankcombe - IECA 204kb

Time	Title	Speaker
10.30m – 11.00am	Achieving best practice in Auckland	Paul Metcalf – Auckland Regional Council 358kb

Perspectives on what constitutes best practice in Queensland

Time	Title	Speaker
10.45am – 11.00am	Perspectives on what constitutes best practice in Queensland – Practitioners view.	Bill Gardyne – Oxbow Consulting 703kb

Time	Title	Speaker
11.15am – 11.30am	Perspectives on what constitutes best practice in Queensland Regulator’s View.	Gary Kane – Environmental Protection Agency 98kb

Erosion Issues – How do they affect your sector?

Time	Title	Speaker
1.30pm – 2.15pm	How to achieve effective erosion and sediment control in the road construction industry	Michael Frankcombe – IECA 497kb

Time

Title

Speaker

2.15pm - 2.45pm

Linking sediment runoff from proposed urban development to potential ecological effects using a quantitative risk assessment approach.

Bryce Cooper - NIWA 1.09mb

Case Studies

Time	Title	Speaker
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Planning for Soil Conservation	Bruce Carey – NR&M 1.13mb

Time	Title	Speaker
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Wivenhoe Dam Wall	Shane McDowell – Leighton Contractors 98kb

Time	Title	Speaker
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Clean Site	Lenore Taylor – Keep Australia Beautiful Council (Qld) 476kb

Time	Title	Speaker
4.00pm – 4.30pm	SedNet Modeling	Jon Brodie – JCU 1.7mb

Time	Title	Speaker
4.00pm – 4.30pm	Future Port Expansion Sea Wall Alliance	Greg Fokes – Leighton Contractors 223kb

Time	Title	Speaker
4.00pm – 4.30pm	Soil Erosion Certification Courses	Michael Frankcombe - IECA 497kb

Time	Title	Speaker
4.30pm – 5.00pm	Building Functional Floodplans	Peter Roebeling – CSIRO 767kb

Time	Title	Speaker
4.30pm – 5.00pm	The role of erosion and sediment control measures and assessments in Post Mining Landform design.	Bill Haylock - ELP 145kb

Thursday 8 September 2005

Time	Title	Speaker
9.00am – 9.30am	Potential policy and regulatory tools – State Government	Graham Ballard - DLGPSR 27kb

Time	Title	Speaker
9.30am – 10.00am	Potential policy and regulatory tools – Local Government	Mark Taylor – Brisbane City Council 93kb

Time	Title	Speaker
10.00am – 10.20am	Future policy and regulation for improved water quality - a conservation perspective	Richard Leck - WWF 223kb

Time	Title	Speaker
10.20am – 10.40am	Potential policy and regulatory tools – Ag perspective	John Cherry - Qld Farer Federation 1.4mb