Healthy Waterways - Woo O'Reilly

Lake Tuggeranong has a history of water quality issues, with frequent lake closures due to high concentrations of blue green algae (cyanobacteria). The Healthy Waterways team in the Office of Water, ACT
Government, has invested millions of dollars and worked with CAWS and other partners to better understand the blue green algae problem in Lake Tuggeranong and come up with a plan to help address it. The Healthy Waterways Plan for Lake Tuggeranong is in its
final stages of development and is the culmination of all the research, modelling and monitoring conducted in the Lake Tuggeranong catchment through the Healthy Waterways initiative.
About Woo
Woo O’Reilly has 25 years’ experience in the field of freshwater management ranging from research on montane stream frogs, Ramsar wetland and migratory bird conservation as well as broader catchment management.
She managed the Upper Murrumbidgee Waterwatch citizen science program for over ten years, engaging the community on issues of waterway health and working to strengthen confidence and increase uptake in citizen science data. She is currently the Senior Catchment
Planner as part of the Healthy Waterways team in the Office of Water, working on a range of initiatives to address water quality issues such as sedimentation and eutrophication, in ACT waterways.