Positive impacts, expected results and practical recommendations
It is expected that the Mulkear EIP will deliver a broad range of positive impacts and that the results generated will help inform sustainable farming practices at a catchment scale. The results will help inform practical water quality improvements and environmental practices and policies, by providing:
- A pilot catchment for the delivery of a catchment sensitive farming approach to improve water quality in recommended areas for action under the River Basin Management Plan.
- Evidence that farmers can play a positive role in supporting healthy water bodies and ecosystems while undertaking on-farm mitigation measures that help reduce agriculture impacts on water quality, riparian zones and instream habitats.
- A focus on getting targeted measures, the right measure in the right place where they will have greatest effect in the Mulkear Catchment.
- Develop catchment sensitive farming discussion groups to provide local farmers with enhanced skills and an improved understanding and appreciation of the “source-pathway-receptor model” and water quality and environmental issues associated with their farming operations and how these issues can be addressed in the context of a locally led scheme.
