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Change log

The following updates may produce slight changes in results. A warning will appear on all existing old scenario signifying a version change and potential change in results if the scenarios are rerun.

The following updates have been applied across all existing instances of Natural Capital Region.

Nutrient Speciation

The reduction in particulate nutrients has previously been managed based on reduction in erosion processes. This approach has been extended to include dissolved nutrients where the proportion associated with erosion processes is managed in line with any reduction on erosion processes.

Water quality yield effectiveness for revegetation actions

The initial condition yield (load per Ha) for revegetation actions was based on the yield for hillslope erosion on forested grazing. This has been changed to open grazing (slightly higher initial erosion rates).

For preservation actions, the initial yield was based on hillslope erosion from forested grazing and the area of woody vegetation (which also includes conservation areas) giving a slightly lower initial yield than expected. This has been updated to ensure the load and area are from the same starting land type.

percentage improvement

Reported percentage improvement for water quality was comparing the reduction in pollutant delivered to the stream with the initial pollutant generation. The proportion of pollutant generated that makes it to the stream varies by erosion process. For hillslope erosion this could be as little as 20% of pollutant generated reaches the waterway. The previous percentage improvement was underestimating improvement for water quality where improvement was dominated by reduced hillslope erosion.

Queensland Southern Gulf region is now available. Covers the Southern Gulf NRM region in Queensland. Including the Nicholson river, Leichardt River, and Flinders River.

Queensland Gulf Savannah region is now available. Covers the Gulf Savannah NRM region in Queensland. Including the Norman River, Gilbert River, Staaten River, Palmer River and Mitchell River.

Victoria Wimmera region is now available. Covers the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority region in Victoria. Including the Wimmera River.

Victoria Ovens Kiewa Murray region is now available. Covers the North East Catchment Management Authority region in Victoria. Including the upper Murray River, Kiewa River and Ovens River.

Victoria Loddon Campaspe region is now available. Covers the North Central Catchment Management authority region in Victoria. Including the Campaspe River, Loddon River and upper Avoca River.

Victoria Glenelg Hopkins region is now available. Covers the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority region in Victoria. Includes the Glenelg River, Hopkins river and Portland Coast area.

Western Australia South Coast region is now available. Covers the South Coast NRM region in Western Australia. Including the Frankland River, Kent River, Denmark River, Albany Coast rivers and Esperance Coast rivers.

South Australia Adelaide and Fleurieu region is now available. Covers the Green Adelaide and the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board regions in South Australia. Including the Torenns River, Onkaparinga River, Myponga River, Fleurieu Peninsula and Mount Lofty Ranges.

Queensland Burdekin region is now available. Covers the NQ Dry Tropics NRM region in Queensland. Including the Burdekin River, Ross River, Don River, Haughton River and Black River.

Queensland Fitzroy region is now available. Covers the Fitzroy Basin Association NRM region in Queensland. Including the Fitzroy River, Shoalwater region, Freshwater Creek and Calliope River.

Victoria Corangamite region is now available. Covers the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority region in Victoria. Including the Moorabool River, Barwon River, Otway Coast, and Corangamite River.

Queensland Wet Tropics region is now available. Covers the Terrain NRM region in Queensland. Including the Herbert River, Murray River, Tully River, Mulgrave River, Russel River, Mossman River and Daintree River.

Queensland Channel Country region is now available. Covers the Desert Channels NRM region in Queensland. Including the channel country, Coopers Creek, Barcoo River, Thomson River, Diamantina River, Georgina River.

Tasmania North West region is now available. The spatial extent is that of the Cradle Coast Authority covering Tasmania’s northwest and west coast.

Tasmania South region is now available. The spatial extent is that of NRM South including the Derwent, Huon, Prosser, Pitt Water-Coal, Swan-Apsley and Tasman Rivers as well as Bruny Island.

Tasmania North region is now available. The spatial extent is that of NRM North, centered around Launceston and includs the Tamar valley, North Esk, South Esk, Meander and Macquarie Rivers.

New South Wales North Coast is now available.

This region covers all coastal streams from Camden Haven River (south of Port Macquarie) in the south to the Tweed River in the north.

The initial condition view for any instance of Natural Capital Region can be shared via a unique URL. The Results of any scenario can be shared by a unique URL.

Qld Lake Eyre region (Desert Channels NRM region) is now available

All instances of Natural Capital Region open to a new view ‘Condition’ which allows creating interactive heat maps by combining the current condition of indicators.

Targets can set (as percentage improvement) for any of the indicators. Scenarios can be run in ‘meet targets’ mode to create the most cost effective portfolio of actions to meet targets.

Mackay Whitsunday region (spatial extent of Reef Catchments NRM region) now available

Margaret River region (Geographe bay) Western Australia now available

In developing the upcoming implementation of Natural Capital Region in the Margaret River region of Western Australia, it became clear that actions to limit phosphorus delivery to streams needed to be handled.

The new indicators are available in all instances of Natural Capital Region

Natural Capital Region available in South East Qld (Healthy Land and Water NRM region)

Natural Capital Region available in Burnet Mary region (spatial extent of the Burnet Mary Regional Group)

Qld Murray Darling Basin region available (spatial extent of Southern Qld Landscapes NRM region)

Initial release of Burnett Mary region instance of Natural Capital Region for testing and review

Yield based calculation

Updated computation to ensure that if Action yield (e.g. t/ha reduction) is greater than the initial condition Yield, that the maximum possible reduction is limited to the initial condition yield.

Microbial data

The initial condition microbial data (derived using Baker et al (2016)) updated to reflect a less conservative estimate of potential microbial pollution (Herds located near waterways without buffer zones). This is to reflect observed survey results conducted in South East Queensland.

Initial release of Natural Capital Region (Queensland Murray Darling Basin Region)

Beta release of Natural Capital Region for testing. This initial version includes revegetation project types and can be applied anywhere in Australia.

Natural Capital Credit has been retired.

Functionality to allow for Verification of Reef Credits to occur outside the Application has been added. Under the ‘Select Verifier’ dropdown, users can select “Manage Verification outside the Application”. Then select the ‘Generate report’ button to create the monitoring report summary.

Verifiers can now nominate reviewers from within their group. Reviewers are given access per monitoring report. Reviewers have read only access to the monitoring report to support the Verifier in revieing a monitoring report. Only the nominated project Verifier has write access to approve/verify the monitoring report.

Release of V1.0. Includes Sugarcane, Banana, Grazing and Cropping industries.

Version handling will allow upload of projects (collections) created in P2R Projector from September 2021.

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