3.4.2 Landscape classes that are unlikely to be impacted

Landscape classes in the Galilee assessment extent that occur outside the zone of potential hydrological change, where impacts are very unlikely (Table 19), include:

526,658 km² of remnant vegetation, including 360,204 km² in the ‘Dryland’; 76,121 km² in the ‘Floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; 59,555 km² in the ‘Floodplain, non-wetland’; 19,348 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; 5,783 km² in the ‘Floodplain, disconnected wetland’; 4,707 km² in the ‘Floodplain, wetland GDE’; and 519 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, disconnected wetland’ landscape groups
71,563 km² of non-remnant vegetation, including 51,319 km² in the ‘Dryland’; 10,363 km² in the ‘Floodplain, non-wetland’; 7,666 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, disconnected saline wetland’; 674 km² in the ‘Floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; 346 km² in the ‘Floodplain, disconnected wetland’; 263 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; and 98 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, wetland GDE’ landscape groups
101,460 km² of groundwater-dependent vegetation, including 76,796 km² in the ‘Floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; 19,611 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE’; 4,796 km² in the ‘Floodplain, wetland GDE’; and 258 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, wetland GDE’ landscape groups
387,170 km of streams, including 45,737 km of streams that are groundwater dependent (‘Streams, GDE’) and 341,433 km of streams that are not groundwater dependent (‘Streams, non-GDE’). Streams outside of the zone predominantly have an intermittent or ephemeral water regime, including ‘Temporary, lowland stream’ (323,930 km), ‘Temporary, lowland GDE stream’ (38,735 km), ‘Temporary, upland stream’ (17,002 km) or ‘Temporary upland GDE stream’ (6,802 km) rather than a perennial or near-perennial water regime (552 km of streams)
20,373 km² of wetland vegetation, including 8133 km² of saline wetlands, 6129 km² in the ‘Floodplain, disconnected wetland’; 4796 km² in the ‘Floodplain, wetland GDE’; 1058 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, disconnected wetland’ and 258 km² in the ‘Non-floodplain, wetland GDE’ landscape groups
1359 springs, including 6 springs in the Doongmabulla Springs complex and 1353 Great Artesian Basin (GAB) springs that are not otherwise described in the three clusters of springs within the zone (Section 3.4.3).

Table 19 Landscape groups and landscape classes showing, for each one, extent within the assessment extent, extent in zone of potential hydrological change and whether qualitative and/or receptor impact models have been prepared

The extent of each landscape class is either an area of vegetation (km²), length of stream network (km) or count of springs (number).

Landscape group	Landscape class	Extent in assessment extent	Extent in zone of potential hydrological change	Qualitative mathematical model	Receptor impact model
Dryland	Dryland (km²)	54,141	2,822	None	None
Dryland	Dryland, remnant vegetation (km²)	365,516	5,312	None	None
Floodplain, disconnected wetland	Floodplain disconnected saline wetland (km²)	207	0	None	None
	Floodplain disconnected saline wetland, remnant vegetation (km²)	203	0	None	None
	Floodplain disconnected wetland (km²)	358	12.0	None	None
	Floodplain disconnected wetland, remnant vegetation (km²)	5,790	7.0	None	None
Floodplain, non-wetland	Floodplain disconnected non-wetland (km²)	12,357	1,994	None	None
Floodplain, non-wetland	Floodplain disconnected non-wetland, remnant vegetation (km²)	59,659	104	None	None
Floodplain, terrestrial GDE	Terrestrial GDE (km²)	750	75.2	Yes	Yes
Floodplain, terrestrial GDE	Terrestrial GDE, remnant vegetation (km²)	78,479	2,358	Yes	Yes
Floodplain, wetland GDE	Wetland GDE (km²)	93.2	5.1	None	None
Floodplain, wetland GDE	Wetland GDE, remnant vegetation (km²)	4,855	148	None	None
Non-floodplain, disconnected wetland	Non-floodplain disconnected saline wetland (km²)	7,666	0	None	None
	Non-floodplain disconnected saline wetland, remnant vegetation (km²)	57.0	0	None	None
	Non-floodplain disconnected wetland (km²)	541	1.9	None	None
	Non-floodplain disconnected wetland, remnant vegetation (km²)	520	1.8	None	None
Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE	Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE (km²)	268	5.5	Yes	Yes
Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE	Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE, remnant vegetation (km²)	20,532	1,184	Yes	Yes
Non-floodplain, wetland GDE	Non-floodplain, wetland GDE (km²)	97.6	0	None	None
Non-floodplain, wetland GDE	Non-floodplain, wetland GDE, remnant vegetation (km²)	161	0.2	None	None
Streams, GDE	Near-permanent, lowland GDE stream (km)	408	253	Yes	Yes
	Near-permanent, upland GDE stream (km)	52.0	6.7	Yes	Yes
	Temporary, lowland GDE stream (km)	40,798	2,063	Yes	Yes
	Temporary, upland GDE stream (km)	7,280	478	Yes	Yes
Streams, non-GDE	Near-permanent, estuarine stream (km)	140	0	None	None
	Near-permanent, lowland stream (km)	116	4.0	Yes	Yes
	Near-permanent, upland stream (km)	100	1.1	Yes	Yes
	Temporary, estuarine stream (km)	150	0	None	None
	Temporary, lowland stream (km)	327,044	3,114	Yes	Yes
	Temporary, upland stream (km)	17,366	365	Yes	Yes
Springs	Springs (number)	1559	200	Yes	No
Total area (km²)		612,252	14,030
Total stream length (km)		393,455	6,285
Total springs (number)		1559	200

GDE = groundwater-dependent ecosystem

Data: Bioregional Assessment Programme (Dataset 1)

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6 December 2018

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