The Healthy Country Waterways Restoration Project focuses on defined areas within the Bremer and Logan Rivers and Lockyer Creek. These regions have a long history of agricultural use and today boast a wide variety of enterprises that rely on healthy waterways for productivity. SEQ Catchment project officers have been working with landholders within their focal …
Overview Issue-based Action Plans 1. Point Source Pollution Management 2. Non-Urban Diffuse Source Pollution Management 3. Water Sensitive Urban Design 4. Protection and Conservation 5. Coastal Algal Blooms Enabling Action Plans 6. Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program 7. Communication, Education and Motivation 8. Management Strategy Evaluation Area-based Action Plans 9. Moreton Bay 10. Northern Catchments 11. …
The SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership is undertaking social research to benchmark awareness and attitudes towards waterway health issues in South East Queensland. An online community survey was launched on 26 February 2010 and will remain open until Friday 9 April. Partner involvement in the process has been extensive, particularly in the development of the survey …
Healthy Waterways is committed to continually improving our knowledge base and to the development of decision support tools that assist our members in achieving effective and efficient management outcomes for the future of our waterways. Our decision support tools model the likely outcomes of management actions and measure the potential reduction in pollutants. This enables …
The Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) is one of the most comprehensive marine, estuarine and freshwater monitoring programs in Australia. It delivers a regional assessment of the ambient ecosystem health (or pulse) for each of South East Queensland’s (SEQ) 19 major catchments, 18 river estuaries, and Moreton Bay, highlighting where the health of our waterways …
Litter is a serious pollution issue that affects our waterways, coastline and ocean – impacting not just on wildlife and the marine environment but on human health and our economy as well. It has been estimated that around 7 million tonnes of litter enter the world’s oceans each year.* Queensland has the highest amount of …
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 study of Moreton Bay and/or catchments had been done and much of the required information was lacking. To address this, a set of key tasks was defined by the …
The principal objective of the Healthy Country Project is to demonstrate that measurable reductions in sediment and nutrients reaching waterways can be achieved through communities and governments working together to apply the best scientific advice available. Through consultation with local communities and landholders the SEQ Catchments Waterways Restoration Project will invest some $5 million in …
In order to enhance visual, social, cultural and ecological experiences in the urban landscape, we must create and maintain urban spaces that both protect environmental values and provide quality recreation and social opportunities. Since 2005, our Water by Design initiative has been working with individuals and organisations to identify and fill knowledge gaps, and facilitate …
The Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) Review has now been completed by an independent Review Panel. The Review Panel developed a number of recommendations grouped as: • One overarching recommendation for a broader monitoring and evaluation framework • Four strategic recommendations to underpin implementation of the overarching recommendation • Eighteen specific recommendations about the EHMP …
