Water Science Technical Series reports

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A collection of our water science technical reports.

Last updated: 27 October 2025

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A baseline study of contaminants in groundwater at disused waste disposal sites in the Swan Canning catchment

A baseline study of contaminants in the sediments of the Swan and Canning estuaries

A baseline study of contaminants in the Swan and Canning catchment drainage system

A baseline study of organic contaminants in the Swan and Canning catchment drainage system using passive sampling devices

A preliminary ecotoxicological investigation of Bull Creek

A snapshot of contaminants in drains of Perth’s industrial areas

Acoustic tracking of freshwater cobbler, Tandanus bostocki, in the Harvey and Brunswick Rivers, south-west Western Australia

Antifouling biocides in Perth coastal waters: a snapshot at select areas of vessel activity

Assessing the influence of acid sulfate soils on water quality in south-western Australian catchments and estuaries

Assessment of ecological health and environmental water provisions in the Harvey River

Assessment of ecological health and environmental water provisions in the Logue Brook

Assessment of low-flow thresholds in maintaining ecological health of the Gingin Brook

Assessment of low-flow thresholds in maintaining the ecological health of the Lennard Brook

Avon Basin hydrological and nutrient modelling

Avon Basin hydrological and nutrient modelling appendices

Birrega and Oaklands flood modelling and drainage study

Development of an ecotoxicity toolbox to characterise water quality for recycling

Ecological study of the lower Canning River environmental water releases

Ecosystem health in the Canning River, focusing on the influence of the Kent Street Weir

Ecotoxicological and bioaccumulation investigations of the Swan Estuary in the vicinity of Claisebrook

Feasibility of managed aquifer recharge using drainage water for the Murray

Framework for the assessment of river and wetland health for flowing rivers of south-west WA - Method

Framework for the assessment of river and wetland health for flowing rivers of south-west Western Australia - Project summary

Report on the Framework for the assessment of river and wetland health trials in south-west Western Australia: first round

Groundwater interactions with acid sulfate soil: a case study in Torbay, Western Australia

Hydrological and nutrient modelling of the Peel-Harvey catchment 2011

Hydrological and nutrient modelling of the Peel–Harvey estuary catchment 2021 - Appendices (A–F)

Hydrological and nutrient modelling of the Swan Canning coastal catchments

Iron Man Gypsum amendment of subsoil drains to treat nutrients in urban groundwater discharge

Iron Man Gypsum treatment: reducing phosphate losses from soils used for dairy production

Lower Serpentine hydrological studies - Conceptual model report

Lower Serpentine hydrological studies - Land development, drainage and climate scenario report

Lower Serpentine hydrological studies - Model construction and calibration report

Lower Vasse River water treatment trials 2016–18: synthesis report

Monitoring seagrass extent and distribution in the Swan-Canning estuary

Murray hydrological studies - Conceptual model report

Murray hydrological studies - Land development, drainage and climate scenario report

Murray hydrological studies: surface water, groundwater and environmental water

Nambeelup groundwater modelling report

North-east Baldivis flood modelling and drainage study

Nutrient export modelling of the Leschenault catchment

Nutrient loads, status and trends in the Leschenault catchment

Nutrient modelling in the Vasse Geographe catchment

Quantifying seagrass and macroalgae in the Bindjareb Djilba (Peel-Harvey estuary), Western Australia: a comparison of methods

Reconnecting rivers flowing to the Vasse Estuary

Reconnecting Toby Inlet: options for increasing water circulation in Toby Inlet to improve water quality

River health assessment in the lower catchment of the Blackwood River

River Health Assessment Scheme for the sub-catchments of the Swan Canning

Scott River catchment hydrological and nutrient modelling

Seagrass as an indicator of estuary condition for the Swan-Canning estuary

Seagrasses in four estuaries in Western Australia’s South West 2017–20

Sediment quality in three south-western Australian estuaries

Selection of future climate projections for Western Australia

Survey of urban nutrient inputs on the Swan Coastal Plain

Treatment of agricultural soils with Iron Man Gypsum to reduce leaching and runoff loss of phosphate to waterways

Urban Nutrient Decision Outcomes Tool (UNDO) - User guide

WaterCAST nutrient modelling of the Leschenault catchment

Western Australia AUSRIVAS sampling and processing manual

Water-balance modelling of the Leschenault catchment

Water quality management in urban catchments of the Swan Coastal Plain

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