NSW long-term water plans environmental water requirement assessment code description
This document provides an outline of the technical details of the environmental water requirement (EWR) assessment code (EWR_Tool) and how the EWRs are evaluated.
Publisher: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Cost: Free
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-923132-66-5
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ID: EHG20240024
File: PDF 1.65 MB / Pages 64
Name: long-term-water-plans-ewr-assessment-code-description-240024.pdf
In 2020 New South Wales published 9 long-term water plans (LTWPs) for the NSW portion of the Murray–Darling Basin.
An environmental water requirement (EWR) for the purpose of NSW LTWPs, describes a set of recommended flow characteristics at a certain location (river gauge) to meet a particular set of environmental objectives in a particular river reach and its associated floodplain.
The EWR assessment code (EWR_Tool) is a computer code in Python that assesses the occurrence of flow conditions that meet or partially meet the LTWP EWRs in observed or modelled flow time series. A link to this code can be found here:
This document provides an outline of the technical details of the EWR_tool (assessment code) and how the EWRs are evaluated.