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The main objective of the Stage 2 task was the formulation of a Water Quality Management Strategy for the waterways. It was recognised that no previous integrated study of Moreton Bay and/or catchments had been done and much of the required information was lacking. To address these deficiencies in the current state of knowledge of water quality processes in the Study Area, a set of key tasks were defined by the Scientific Advisory Group, a group of scientific experts from the various universities, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage (now the EPA), in conjunction with the stakeholders. The 17 Stage 2 tasks aimed to provide the necessary data and information to quantify and verify the relative importance of the various processes in the conceptual model. The integration of the different tasks is illustrated in a task architecture, which has a numerical receiving water quality model as the central core.
Stage two focussed on the river estuaries and Moreton Bay, and the agreed outcomes of Stage 2 activities was the Water Quality Strategy and monitoring program for Moreton Bay and river estuaries. The specific focus on river estuaries and Moreton Bay in Stage 2 resulted from the immediate need by water quality engineers from local councils to plan and implement sewage treatment plant upgrades. This focus on point sources and their impacts in Stage 2 was designed to serve as a pilot study for more thorough, longer-term studies in Stage 3. Stage 2 was completed over a short time frame, 18 months, so that implementation could be based on the best possible scientific understanding.
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