Bremer River Catchment and Estuary

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Catchment Facts
  • Total area: 2,031km2
  • Stream network length: 4,425km
  • Local Councils: Ipswich City Council, Scenic Rim Council
  • Dominant land uses: grazing, native bush, intensive agriculture, urban
  • Lower catchment mostly urbanised, rest of the catchment rural, with the majority of the catchment cleared for cattle grazing
  • Some areas of natural bush remaining in upper catchment
  • Widespread channel and gully erosion in the river and its tributaries
  • Riparian vegetation significantly modified; little native vegetation remaining
  • Four WWTPs and other point sources discharging into the catchment’s waterways, contributing to sediment and nutrient loads
Freshwater results
D+Bremer Catchment   
  • Streams generally in poor condition.
  • Substantial decrease in ecosystem processes offset by increases in all other indicators.
Estuarine results
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  • Poor water quality with continued high nutrients, high turbidity and low dissolved oxygen concentration.

For more information on the Report Card, please visit:
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Other Bremer River Catchment links:

Local Councils                    Community/Catchment Groups                      Environmental Education Centres 
Ipswich City Council Bremer Catchment Association Maroon Outdoor Education Centre
Scenic Rim Council Queens Park Environmental Education Centre