FLOWS Assessed River Reaches

The FLOWS method is used to determine environmental water requirements for rivers and streams in Victoria. It was developed by SKM, the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Freshwater Ecology (NRE) and Lloyd Environmental Consultants (2002) and is used primarily for Stream Flow Management Plans and some Bulk Entitlements. It is designed to assess the water requirements for the instream environment and overbank flows for floodplain wetting, it is not applicable to watering regimes for large wetlands or for estuaries.FLOWS方法用于确定维多利亚州河流与溪流的生态需水量（environmental water requirements）。该方法由SKM、淡水生态合作研究中心（Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology）、NRE下属淡水生态部门（Freshwater Ecology (NRE)）以及劳埃德环境咨询公司于2002年联合开发，主要应用于溪流流量管理计划（Stream Flow Management Plans）及部分批量水权（Bulk Entitlements）场景。本方法旨在评估河道内生态环境（instream environment）需水与用于洪泛区浸湿的漫滩水流（overbank flows）需水，不适用于大型湿地补水规程（watering regimes）或河口（estuaries）区域。