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Routine management work
To maintain the lagoons and their infrastructure, routine management occurs at all 10 sites.
Nesting islands are managed to keep vegetation in check and the ground conditions suitable for nesting (either by incorporating shingle for nesting terns or grading mud for wader nest sites. To prevent its encroachment onto the lagoon, vegetation is cut back or dug out from the margins of lagoons. Wader roosts are kept free from tall vegetation.
Water levels and salinity levels are managed by sluices to allow fresh and salt water in or out depending on requirements, and water control sluices are routinely maintained. Anti-predator fences are maintained to ensure mammalian predators cannot access nesting areas.