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Agency Responsibility Local agency Responsibility Committees of Management Manage reserved Crown land on behalf of the Minister. Committees are usually the Local Shire or publicly elected. DSE Manages reserves for the purposes for which they are gazetted. Municipalities Elected Committees Responsibility for and coordination of all activities relating to the discharge of waste into the environment and the Environment generation, storage, treatment, Licence sewage and other discharges. Protection Authority transport and disposal of industrial EPA East Region Monitor water quality. (EPA) waste and the emission of noise and for preventing or controlling pollution and noise and protecting and improving the quality of the environment. Strategic Statewide coastal planning; preparation of the Victorian Coastal Victorian Coastal Strategy; advise the Minister; monitor Gippsland Coastal Council development of Coastal Action Plans; Board and coordinate the implementation of the Victorian Coastal Strategy and Coastal Action Plans. Establish, manage, dredge and maintain channels in port waters; Gippsland Ports provide and maintain navigation in Gippsland Ports connection with navigation of port waters; direct and control movement of vessels within port waters. Develop Coastal Action Plans and guidelines for coastal planning and management within the region; provide advice to Minister and Council on coastal development within the region; and implementation of, and facilitating public awareness of the Victorian Coastal Strategy, Coastal Action Plans and coastal guidelines. Operation of commercial port of Lakes Entrance. Maintenance of navigational aids and channels. Management of public facilities.
The La Trobe River is one of the most highly polluted rivers in Victoria (DCE 1991). The river annually washes several thousand tonnes of suspended sediment into Lake Wellington, mostly derived from erosion of the river’s banks and lower tributaries, but also through point-source discharges from industry and urban developments and diffuse-source discharges from agricultural activity and degradation in its highly-modified catchment (DCE 1991). The nutrient status of Lake Wellington is consequently eutrophic by OECD standards, and the biological diversity of the lake is poor, being dominated by phytoplankton (Bek and Bruton 1979, Robinson 1995). Lakes Victoria and King, the lower two lakes of the Gippsland Lakes system, are not as severely affected by pollution as Lake Wellington, due to their location and their more marine nature (Harris et al. 1998). Analysis of EPA water quality records shows no clear or marked deterioration in the water quality of these lakes since the mid-1980s. Reduced freshwater inflow from the catchment, together with the creation of a permanent opening at Lakes Entrance in 1889, has transformed what was previously a freshwater system into a marine system. Increased salinity levels cause suspended solids to flocculate and settle out, which in turn accommodate extensive beds of seagrasses, aquatic macrophytes and a rich benthic fauna (Harris et al. 1998).