Catchment Facts
- Total area: 468km2
- Stream network length: 795km
- Local Councils: Moreton Bay Regional Council
- Dominant land uses: native bush, grazing, rural residential, urban, poultry farms, strawberry and pineapple farms
- Upper catchment includes the undisturbed streams in the D’Aguilar National Park
- The mid and upper catchment is characterised mostly by agricultural and rural residential areas
- Two WWTPs discharge into the Caboolture River
Freshwater results
C+ Caboolture Catchment
- Streams in fair condition
- Improvements in physical and chemical, aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish indicators were offset by a substantial decline in the nutrient cycling indicator
- Nutrient cycling was the lowest scoring indicator in both seasons
Estuarine results
D Caboolture Estuary
- Low dissolved oxygen levels in the middle reaches and elevated nutrients throughout the system
- Higher freshwater inputs from the catchment resulting in lower salinity levels throughout the system compared to 2006-2007
- Some intact natural riparian habitat in the intertidal zone but extensively impacted background riparian habitat