Year: 2004 - ongoing
Since 2004, WRL has been working in collaboration with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) and the Department of Primary Industries (NSW Fisheries) to transform the Tomago Wetlands site from a large acidic landscape into a restored productive tidal wetland. The wetland is being created to compensate for migratory wading bird habitat destroyed elsewhere in the lower Hunter River estuary.
The specific challenge faced by the Tomago Wetland Restoration Project was to design and build a system that would naturally encourage saltmarsh regeneration, an ecological community in serious decline in NSW. Saltmarsh requires very specific hydrological and water quality conditions. The engineering challenge was to deliver the right volume of water, to the right place, at the right depth, at the right time and at the right salinity to allow nature to flourish and generate saltmarsh.
The ...
Monitoring station map
Wetlands wide-angle camera images
- Controlled data
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Note: Access to some monitoring data throughout Tomago is controlled. This additional data can be accessed, opens in a new window here, opens in a new window.
This project was funded by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment - National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Please note that data presented on this page includes real-time measurements sent directly from field stations. Subsequently, this data has not been quality controlled and may contain errors. Please contact WRL directly should you have any queries regarding this data and the suitability of its use.