Tambo River Improvement Trust

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Constituted under the provisions of the River Improvement Act , Gazetted 12 August 1953. District extended and gazetted 15 April 1959, and 8 June 1960.

The Trust was constituted in August 1953 to manage problems on the floodplain between Bruthen and the mouth of the Tambo at Lake King. It comprised 7 Commissioners (5 elected by ratepayers, one appointed by Tambo Shire Council and one Government nominee).

The objectives of the Trust were to mitigate flooding of low lying areas by the removal of snags and other obstructing vegetative growth from the river channel, the construction of embankments across low break out areas to prevent water spreading over farming land, the construction of drains in low-lying areas and the stabilisation of eroding.

In 1994 the Tambo River Improvement Trust was replaced by the Tambo Nicholson River Management Board (VA 5012).

Since 1997, the Tambo River (and other East Gippsland rivers) has been the
responsibility of the East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, (VA 4225)