Information and Data

Access to the best available information and water quality data is essential for the development of NRM plans. To achieve this, the Water Quality program has set the following objectives:

1. To ensure that Regional Bodies have access to existing water quality information for their catchments in a form that is both comprehensive yet understandable and readily accessible.
2. To ensure that data from local regional activities (state agency, external science providers, community data) are brought together with more formal and well-documented data;
3. To provide guidance for further monitoring based on identified data gaps and priority issues.

Click on the product types below to see what we have to offer, to support these objectives:

• Guides
• Databases
• Factsheets
• Conference Papers
• Scientific Papers
• Technical Reports
• Event Monitoring Products

e-guides - 5 guideline documents in 1 fully searchable html Help system.

Guideline documents included in e-guides:

• ANZECC Water Quality Guidelines
• ANZECC WQ Monitoring & Reporting Guidelines
• Queensland Water Quality Guidelines
• NHMRC Recrational Water Quality Guidelines
• CRC Coastal Indicator Guide

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ANZECC & ARMCANZ - Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality 2000 - Fully searchable HTML help version

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ANZECC & ARMCANZ - Australian Guidelines for Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting Guidelines - Fully searchable HTML help version

Sampling Procedural Guide for Event Monitoring of Total Suspended Solids, Pesticides and Nutrients (664Kb)

A field based guide to provide assistance for community groups during field sampling.

Community Health and Safety Guidelines

Developed to assist community groups in assessing health and safety factors involved in water quality sampling.

Technical Reference Manual

A guide for designing monitoring programs. It will be delivered through a series of modules focussing on data confidence, objectives setting, study design, sampling methods, data management, interpretation and reporting.

This product available 2007.

Natural Resource Info Pool

The Info Pool is a web-based tool that has been designed as a storage and search tool for information and data on water quality.

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State of the Rivers database

Database containing information on riverine habitat assessment from State of the Rivers surveys

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now, but must be accessed
through the Dept. of Natural Resources, Mines & Water

Horrigan et al (2004) Predicting the effects of secondary salinisation on stream macroinvertebrate communities using artificial neural networks. Presented at the 4th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Informatics (ISEI) Pusan National University, Busan (Pusan), Korea October 24-28, 2004. (PDF 283 KB)

The papers below were presented at the MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Melbourne, Australia December 2005.

Dougall Packett & Carroll Application of the Sednet Model in Partnership with the Fitzroy Basin Association. (PDF 750 KB)

Fentie et al. Sensitivity analysis of a catchment scale sediment generation and transport model (PDF 163 KB)

Fentie et al. Comparison of mean annual suspended loads estimated by the SedNet model and rating curves in the Fitzroy catchment, Australia (PDF 249 KB)

Pickett et al. Hidden Datasets, an Untapped Resource (PDF 39KB)

Ramsay et al. A decision support system for licensing sewage discharges to aquatic environments: Development and demonstration (PDF 135 KB)

Tennakoon & Cawley Decision Support System for Developing Community- Driven Water Quality Monitoring Plans (PDF 82 KB)

The papers below were presented at the 30th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium, 4-7 December 2006, Hobart, Tasmania.

Marsh, Tennakoon, Arene and Fentie Catchment Modelling Parameter Library: Development and Population. (PDF 122 KB)

Fenti, Joo and Marsh Comparing TSS Loads from a Catchment Model, Two Rating Curves and a Ratio Method Without True Values: The Challenge. (PDF 254 KB)

The papers below were presented at the 5th Australian Stream Management Conference Albury NSW, Australia 21-25 May, 2007.

Packett A mouthful of mud: the fate of contaminants from the Fitzroy River, Queensland, Australia and implications for reef water policy (PDF 185 KB).

Tennakoon & Marsh Regional hydraulic geometry models for Queensland streams (PDF 61 KB)

Waters and Packett Sediment and nutrient generation rates for Queensland rural catchments - an event monitoring program to improve water quality modelling (PDF 488KB)

Horrigan et al. (2007) Acute toxicity largely reflects the salinity sensitivity of stream macroinvertebrates derived using field distributions. Marine and Freshwater Research. 58: 178 - 186.

Download Abstract (PDF 134KB)

Go to Full Text article at CSIRO Publishing

Kefford et al. (2004) Do laboratory salinity tolerances of freshwater animals correspond with their field salinity? Environmental Pollution 129: 355-362. (PDF 179 KB)

Zalizniak et al. (2006) Is salinity all the same? I. The effect of ionic compositions on the salinity tolerance of five species of freshwater invertebrates. Marine and Freshwater Research. 57: 75-82. (PDF 198 KB)

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Go to Full Text article at CSIRO Publishing

Waters 2006 Application of the EMSS water quality model for The Queensland Murray Darling Catchment : Assessing the impacts of on-ground works (PDF 3.10 MB)

Negus and Farthing 2006 Water Quality Information Summary for the Condamine Balonne Catchment (PDF 4.68 MB)

Dunlop and McGregor 2007 Setting water quality guidelines for salinity and sediment in freshwater streams in Queensland: An applied approach within a natural resource management context (PDF 2.52 MB)

Schulz and Negus 2007 Water Quality Information Summary for the Burdekin Catchment (PDF 2.83 MB)

Negus 2007 Water Quality Information Summary for the Fitzroy Catchment (PDF 1.67 MB)

Report summarinsing water quality information for the Fitzroy region.

Stephens 2007 Burnett Riparian Benchmarking and Mapping Report (PDF 1.45 MB)

A technical report provididing baseline data on benchmarked riparian vegetation in the Burnett Catchment.