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Environmental rules

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    Overview of environmental flow rules

    Environmental flow rules will make significant progress towards restoring important aspects of the natural flow regime

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    River flow objectives

    The objectives set out 12 aspects of flow considered to be critical for the protection or restoration of river health, ecology and biodiversity.

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    River management

    Management rules for regulated and unregulated river systems.

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    Transparent and translucent flows

    The intent of a transparent or translucent flow is to restore natural flow variability associated with specific flow ranges, usually freshes and minor floods.

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