Tools and Software

The Water Quality program has produced a variety of tools and software to provide guidance to Regional Bodies and other stakeholders. These tools are designed to assist in target-setting, planning, interpretation and statistical analysis.

Click on the product types below to see our range of interpretation tools and software:

• Guidance Tools
• Interpretation Tools
• Visualisation Tools

Monitoring Plan Tool for community-based waterway monitoring

Software to assist community-based natural resource management groups to develop, document and communicate waterway monitoring plans.

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Pesticide Decision Support Tool - SafeGauge

A software tool for landowners and extension personnel to minimise the risk of off-site losses of pesticides from canelands to surface and ground waters.

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Decision Support System for Licensing Discharges to Aquatic Environments

A software tool to aid NRM decision-makers in setting license limits. Incorporates Water Quality guidelines, objectives and values into the process.

Further development of this product
is being undertaken by the
eWater CRC

Loads Tool 1.0.1

The loads tool provides guidance on a series of alternative techniques for calculating sediment loads. This tool is a decision-based tool with the ability to provide a comparative assessment of the load calculation techniques.

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Guidelines 1.0.2

A software system that will take an input time series of water quality parameters and compare this to a guideline value chosen by the user from a library of guidelines. The procedure for setting guidelines follow percentile statistical principles to provider the user with an indication of whether or not the site from which the data have been drawn is/isn’t complying with the guideline.

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