This submission is made on the Draft Scoping Requirements for the Lindsay Island and Wallpolla Island Floodplain Restoration Projects Environmental Effects Statement and on the Draft Scoping Requirements for the Hattah Lakes North and Belsar-Yungera Floodplain Restoration Projects Environmental Effects Statement. We refer to these bundled projects collectively as ‘Projects’ in this submission.

This submission is made jointly by Environmental Justice Australia (EJA), Environment Defenders Office (EDO) and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (WGCS). Each of these organisations has extensive experience and expert knowledge concerning water management generally and, specifically, law and science concerning the Murray-Darling Basin.