Temporary waterbodies, be they standing water or
flowing water, will lose water and dry, or become a
series of increasingly diminishing pools. Protective
actions should include:
1. Maintaining riparian vegetation through the provision
of targeted environmental flows and other
measures (e.g. stock management).
2. No taking of fallen timbers (snags) as these help
to maintain bank and habitat structure in the
stream and also provide refugial habitats.
3. Protecting the stream from livestock and other
sources of rural and human disturbance.
4. The prevention of activities that convert the dry
streambed or dehydrated wetlands into arable
land.
5. Maintenance of hydrologic connectivity of
ephemeral streams and wetlands to more permanently
flowing parts of a river system (i.e. no
imposition of impassable barriers).
Environmental flows