Purpose

The Sustainable Rivers Audit (SRA) was created to assess river health across all the Basin’s rivers in the long term. The audit is overseen by a panel of ecologists, the Independent Sustainable Rivers Audit Group (ISRAG).

Tasks

• Assess the condition of all 23 Basin river valleys in a consistent and reproducible way.
• Coordinate the implementation of the SRA across the Basin.
• Coordinate and manage sampling, data collection, analysis and reporting to ISRAG.
• Report on river health to Ministerial Council to inform decision making.
• To the extent possible, make SRA data publicly available.

MDBC SRA