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One Size Fits All? A Regulatory Approach to Utilising Discharge Limits to Achieve Improved Environmental Outcomes
01/05/2013
It is common knowledge that intervention is necessary to mitigate the ongoing effects of urban contamination on our waterways.
Intervention is usually achieved via discharge consents, granted only if appropriate management practices are implemented to avoid, remedy or mitigate effects on the receiving environment. However, insufficient data exists to determine whether the proposed controls and limits are achieving environmental outcomes. In particular, not enough is known about specific receiving environments, which makes setting discharge limits ‘guesswork’.