In 2001, the Government of South Australia announced that the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) would manage the Study which sought to develop the understanding needed to redress the issues of seagrass loss, seafloor instability and poor water quality along Adelaide's metropolitan coast. This important work has delivered the ability to establish the targets that need to be achieved to manage our coast in a sustainable manner.
The Final Report of the ACWS integrates a large amount of knowledge derived through the Study, most of it delivered through local areas of expertise - original work that discovered important relationships between Adelaide's coastal ecosystem and its range of inputs. The report is underpinned by 20 Technical Reports, published during the course of the study and a Volume 2 report that summarises much of this work.
![Seagrass [posidonia sinuosa] in flower](/binary/image11405/C.jpg.html)
