Water publications

Disaster Recovery

• Severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie (March 2017) Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements Category D Environmental Recovery Package: Riparian, mapping and watercourse recovery (PDF, 2.9MB)

Environmental Values - Environmental Protection (Water and Wetland Biodiversity) Policy 2019

• DRAFT Guideline Deciding aquatic ecosystem indicators and local water quality guidelines (PDF, 2.4MB)
• Fact sheet—Environmental Values and Water Quality Objectives (PDF, 256.7KB)
• Frequently asked questions—Healthy Waters for Queensland: Environmental Values, Management Goals and Water Quality Objectives (PDF, 421.5KB)
• Guideline—healthy waters management plan (HWMP), under the Environmental Protection (Water and Wetland Biodiversity) Policy 2019 (PDF, 398.7KB)

Ecosystem health indicators

• Ambient water quality monitoring program, March to December 1992. Environment technical report No. 12 (see availability)
• A preliminary assessment of sediment and nutrient exports from Queensland coastal catchments. Environment technical report No. 5, 1992 (see availability)
• Testing the Waters - A report on the quality of Queensland waters 1999 (see availability)

Biological and habitat monitoring

• Bacteriological monitoring of Redcliffe and Sunshine Coast beaches March 1994 - April 1994 (see availability)
• Bacteriological monitoring of Sunshine Coast, Caboolture and Redcliffe beaches, and Maroochy and Mooloolah Rivers October 1997 to April 1998 (see availability)
• Bacteriological assessment of beaches and river recreation areas in Redcliffe, Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast October 1998 to April 1999 (see availability)
• Bacteriological assessment of beaches and river recreation areas in Redcliffe, Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast October 1999 to April 2000 (see availability)
• Contaminants in Blunder Creek biota (see availability)
• Contaminants in Mud Crabs and Sediments from the Maroochy River (see availability)
• Hervey Bay report: Chlorophyll-a sampling by Oceana Project. (see availability) Environment technical report No. 23.
• Investigation of mangrove dieback in the Pioneer River estuary, MacKay (see availability)
• Levels of heavy metals in the sediments of Queensland rivers, estuaries and coastal waters (see availability)
• Long-term monitoring of chlorophyll-a in Hervey Bay, Queensland (see availability)
• Recreational water quality monitoring at popular beaches, lakes and rivers in south-east Queensland, 2000-2001 (see availability)

Water quality guidelines

• Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality (ANZG 2018)
• DRAFT Guideline Deciding aquatic ecosystem indicators and local water quality guidelines (PDF, 2.4MB) .
• Water Monitoring and Sampling Manual. Provides common monitoring and sampling techniques for use by Queensland Government and other organisations.
• Queensland water quality guidelines 2009 (see availability)

Water quality data and reports

Water quality information and data are available from the following websites:

• Water quality data and assessments
• Healthy Land and Water, Report Card Interactive Data Dashboard. WaterNav is a way to explore and visualise freshwater and estuarine-marine data from the Healthy Land and Water’s EHMP dataset (2000-2019).
• Water Monitoring Information Portal. Information on river height and stream flow values, historic streamflow data and groundwater levels.

Water quality reports are listed below:

• A city-wide assessment of water quality in Brisbane's creeks October 1999 - April 2000 (see availability)
• A Report on the Long-term Water Quality Monitoring of Estuaries and Inshore Coastal Waters in Central Queensland (PDF, 5.2MB)
• Logan, Coomera and South Moreton Bay regional wastewater management study: Environmental Monitoring Program: Annual Reports 1996 to 1999 (see availability)
• Maroochy and Mooloolah Catchments - Water quality study 1997 (see availability)
• Nerang River, Tallebudgera, Currumbin and Coombabah Creeks: Water Quality Report 1999 (see availability)
• Southport Broadwater and adjacent Pacific Ocean: water quality study 1979–1998 (see availability)
• South East Queensland Water Quality Monitoring Program - Redland Shire Waterways Water Quality Study, 1996, 1997 1998, 1999 (see availability)
• Water quality in Moggill, Oxley and Nundah Creeks: January 1998 to June 1999: incorporating long term trends analysis for the period November 1995 to June 1999 (see availability)
• Water quality in Wet Tropics streams, estuaries and inshore coastal waters - 2006 (see availability)
• Water quality monitoring in Cape York Streams, June to August 2021 (PDF, 5.5MB)
• Water Quality Sampling of Lake Wabby, K'gari (Fraser Island) 2021 (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Water quality summary report No. 2: Oxley Creek, September 1988 to June 1990. (see availability)

Brochures

• Brisbane Creeks Water Quality Study (see availability)
• Gold Coast wastewater and the environment (see availability)
• Gold Coast water quality: Nerang River, Tallebudgera, Currumbin and Coombabah Creeks (see availability)
• Logan-Nerang water quality study (see availability)
• Mary River - water quality condition and trends (see availability)
• Redland Shire Water Quality Study (see availability)

Available from the library catalogue

The documents referred to on this page are available from the department’s online library catalogue.