• Monthly Water Report
• Victorian Water Accounts
• River Health Monitoring
  • Index of Stream Condition
  • River Health Report Card
  • Statewide Fish Monitoring
  • Waterwatch Program
• Groundwater Monitoring
• Surface Water Monitoring
• Surface Water Modelling
• Victorian Water Resources Data Warehouse

A Monitoring Legacy

The small town of Jeparit in Victoria’s northwest is home to Australia’s oldest “Waterwatchers”. Not necessarily the oldest in age (the youngest member is aged 10) but it is the first Waterwatch group to complete a decade of continuous monthly monitoring.

Since forming, the group has met monthly to test samples from six river sites and now have over 120 data records.

Jeparit is the last town along the Wimmera River before it enters Lake Hindmarsh, one of the system’s terminal lakes.

Over the past 10 years, the group has monitored and captured some incredible events:

• the region’s last major flood (1996),
• environmental water releases,
• the drying out of Lake Hindmarsh in 2000,
• riparian and ecological changes such as increasing phragmites and mistletoe.

Information from the Jeparit group helps the Wimmera CMA with planning environmental flow releases and provides the broader community with a deeper appreciation of their river environment.