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Park Operations).

    6.6.9        Proposals to provide supplementary or alternative supplies of potable water may be considered and any associated works will be subject to assessment under the processes outlined in Section 9.8, How proposals will be evaluated.

    6.6.10    Appropriate research and monitoring of freshwater quality and ecosystems will continue to be undertaken or permitted in order to develop a more comprehensive body of information on the park's freshwater resources and their particular management requirements.

Actions

    6.6.11    Maintain liaison with relevant public health, pollution control and water supply authorities and cooperate with the Jervis Bay Territory Administration, Defence, the Council and other Territory landholders to minimise pollution of water bodies through seepage from sewerage systems, runoff from developed areas or saltwater intrusion.

    6.6.12    Liaise with the Jervis Bay Territory Administration regarding any plans to consider alternative sources of water supply for the Jervis Bay Territory other than Lake Windermere.

    6.7           Fire

Aims
    * Fire is managed within the park to protect life and property and to maintain, conserve and enhance biodiversity.

    * Indigenous fire management practices are integrated into park fire management.

Background
Fire is a natural feature of Booderee. Although only a limited amount is known about the pre-European fire regimes of coastal NSW, traditional Aboriginal fire management was dynamic and very important in shaping the composition of the area's flora and fauna.

Photographs taken within the area of the park in the late 1800s and early 1900s suggest that fire was used by European settlers as a means of modifying pasture and gaining access through thick coastal heath. Considerable environmental problems occurred at Bherwerre Beach and Bowen Island as a result of this frequent fire regime, the primary examples being dune destabilisation and changes in vegetation community composition.

In 1972, two-thirds of the then Jervis Bay Nature Reserve (45 per cent of the current area of the park) was burnt by wildfires. In response, the then Department of Territories set up permanent vegetation monitoring sites within a range of different vegetation types. In 1976, extensive vegetation surveys for the reserve were completed (Ingwersen 1976) and a vegetation and fire management strategy commenced the following year.

In 1997, a consultant was commissioned to update previous vegetation surveys and revisit the monitoring sites and to make recommendations on the management of fire for vegetation communities and significant plant species (Taws 1997, 1998). The resulting reports form an important part of the fire planning process for Booderee and recognise that the ongoing use of fire is essential to the survival of some plant communities. The reports made recommendations on fire regimes, fire intensities and fire frequency thresholds for all broad vegetation communities in the Territory. In 2000 these recommendations were revised by