Gnangara sustainability strategy technical symposium

The development of the Gnangara sustainability strategy (GSS), involved a significant body of research that underpins the recommendations contained within the GSS. The GSS is due to be released in July 2009.

Held on 7 and 8 April 2009, the GSS technical symposium aimed to provide transparency of process and to achieve a common understanding of the complex issues surrounding the Gnangara groundwater system.

While a number of presentations were based on reports published as part of the GSS, additional projects were presented that directly support the development of the GSS.

Technical symposium presentations

• Gnangara Decision Support System, presented by Amgad Elmadi (CSIRO)
• Sense of Place: Perth Community Attitude towards Places of Significance on the Gnangara Groundwater System, presented by Sorada Tapsuwan (CSIRO)
• Gnangara groundwater system aquifers, presented by Phil Commander (Department of Water)
• Public water supply, presented by Mark Leathersich (Water Corporation)
• Perth regional aquifer modelling system (PRAMS), presented by Chris O'Boy (Department of Water)
• Gnangara Mound local area modelling, presented by Binh Anson (Department of Water)
• Biodiversity and wetlands, presented by Barbara Wilson (Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Wetland invertebrate and fish biodiversity, presented by Bea Sommer (Edith Cowan University on behalf of the Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Food Resources of Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo in the GSS: potential impacts of pine removal, presented by Leonie Valentine (Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Fire, recharge and biodiversity, presented by Barbara Wilson (Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Geochemical processes of podzol acidification, presented by Prof. Bob Gilkes (University of WA on behalf of the Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Groundwater acidification on the Gnangara Mound, presented by Steven Appleyard, (Department of Environment and Conservation)
• Managed aquifer recharge options for non-potable water, Don McFarlane (CSIRO)
• Groundwater replenishment trial, presented by Nick Turner (Water Corporation)
• Investigation of the regional planning context and future uses, presented by Andrew Montgomery (Department for Planning and Infrastructure)
• Horticulture study, presented by Doug McGhie (Science Matters on behalf of the Department of Agriculture and Food)
• Plantation forestry on the Gnangara Mound, presented by John McGrath (Forest Products Commission)
• Assessment of silvicultural regimes, presented by Jackson Parker (Forest Products Commission)
• Alternative plantation species, presented by Jackson Parker (Forest Products Commission)
• Landscape assessment of GSS public lands, presented by Paul Brown (Department of Environment and Conservation)