Catchment FactsTotal area: 1,195km2 Stream network length: 2,475km Local Councils: Brisbane City Council, Logan City Council, Scenic Rim Council Dominant land uses: urban, native bush, grazing, rural residential Highly modified, urbanised catchment Some grazing lands and natural bush/forested areas remain in the upper parts of the catchment Riparian vegetation has been cleared from most waterways …
2006-07 2006-07 EHMP Technical Report 2006-07 Executive Summaries and Introductions 2006-07 Methods 2006-07 Regional Overview 2006-07 Moreton sub-region 2006-07 Northern sub-region 2006-07 Southern sub-region 2006-07 Western sub-region 2006-07 Appendices 2005-06 2005-06 Annual Technical Report 2005-06 Executive Summaries and Introduction 2005-06 Methods 2005-06 Regional Overview 2005-06 Moreton sub-region 2005-06 Northern sub-region 2005-06 Southern sub-region 2005-06 Western …
Results from the Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program are split into four sub-regions. Click on the list below or on the map to go to results for each sub-region. Northern Catchments Noosa River Catchment and Estuary Maroochy River Catchment and Estuary Mooloolah River Catchment and Estuary Pumicestone Passage Catchment and Estuary Moreton Bay Catchments Caboolture River …
Catchment Facts Total area: 2,974km2 Stream network length: 6,056km Local Councils: Toowoomba Regional Council, Lockyer Valley Regional Council, Somerset Regional Council, Ipswich City Council Dominant land uses: native bush, grazing, intensive agriculture, rural residential The upper catchment remains forested Mid and lower catchment has been largely cleared The catchment has the highest proportion of land …
Healthy Waterways, in partnership with the Pullenvale Environmental Education Centre, have launched ‘Up the Creek & Down the Drain’, a new education unit that takes a creative-arts approach (called a Storythread) to educate school students about water litter. This approach to environmental education uses exciting stories about people and their strong connections to place. ‘Up …
Stream order is a simple method for classifying streams based on their relative size and location within a catchment. Streams are classified according to the number of tributaries upstream as they alter their physical characteristics, join up and eventually become rivers. First and second order streams are often referred to as ‘headwater’ streams because they …
Catchment Facts Total area: 281km2 Stream network length: 525km Local Councils: Brisbane City Council, Logan City Council, Redland City Council Dominant land uses: urban, native bush, intensive agriculture, market gardens, grazing Tingalpa Reservoir impounds Tingalpa Creek Four WWTPs discharge into the Redlands/Waterloo Bay catchment Rapid urbanisation of the catchment over recent years has led to …
Algae A very broad group of simple plants (including phytoplankton, and benthic microalgae and macroalgae) that live chiefly in fresh or salt water and are capable of photosynthesis. Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, are included in the term algae for the purposes of this document, although taxonomically speaking they are not strictly algae. (Singular – alga; …
Gold Coast Waterwatch, City of Gold Coast Catchment Management Unit and Natura Education The Waterways Field Guide Project Gold Coast The Waterways Field Guide Project combined the expertise of numerous local experts and organisations to produce a dynamic collection of field guides. From water bugs to waterway vegetation communities, the field guide collection is the …
