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Monitoring Partnerships

There is a clear need for a coordinated regional water quality monitoring program that meets regional needs and effectively supports monitoring partnerships between stakeholders. To achieve this, regional stakeholders require a range of tools and support to address information and knowledge gaps and build capacity within the region in relation to water quality and aquatic ecosystem health.

Click on the product types below to see what products the Water Quality program is providing to assist regional monitoring partnerships:

Water Quality Guides
Water Quality Coordination
Training and Technical Support

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Water Quality Guides

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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

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Sampling Procedural Guide for Event Monitoring of Total Suspended Solids, Pesticides and Nutrients

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

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Community Health and Safety Guidelines

The H&S guidelines for community monitoring has been developed to assist community groups in assessing health and safety factors involved in water quality sampling.

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Indicator Guide

The Coastal CRC's User's Guide to Estuarine, Coastal and Marine Indicators for Regional NRM Monitoring has been transformed into a fully searchable HTML help file system.

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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.

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Water Quality Coordination

The Regional Water Quality Officers

Their role:

Provide day-to-day support to regional bodies
Provide advice and assistance on regional WQ issues
Coordinate WQ projects between government, RB’s and CG’s
Develop event based monitoring programs in each of the NAP regions

Dave Waters

Condamine and Queensland Murray Darling

David Waters

Senior Project Officer (Water Quality)
Toowoomba NRM

Email: David.Waters@nrw.qld.gov.au

Phone: (07) 4688 1598
Fax: (07) 4688 1488

Bob Packett

Fitzroy

Bob Packett

Senior Project Officer (Water Quality)
Rockhampton NRM

Email: Robert.Packett@nrw.qld.gov.au

Phone: (07) 4938 4242
Fax: (07) 4938 4010

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Peter Verwey
Project Officer (Water Quality)
Townsville NRM

Email: Peter.Verwey@nrw.qld.gov.au

Phone: (07) 4799 7052
Fax: (07) 4799 7736

Training and Support

To provide extension services to the regions.

The Water Quality program provides technical support on water quality monitoring, as well as training on the use and application of various products.

WORKSHOP: Water Quality Sampling and Analysis - Dan Wruck (QHSS)

This two day workshop is aimed at community groups, local government and agency staff, and others who are involved in the measurement of physical and nutrient parameters.

The workshop objectives include:

Review of sampling practices (focus on nutrients)
Identify and quantify contamination issues
Understand QA/QC issues - to be applied
Review and compare field analysis kits - benchmarked against field lab analyses (please bring own kits)
Participant data to identify issues and calculate precision data in feedback session

Parameters to be reviewed/compared include:

Nutrients - Ammonia, Nitrate/Nitrite and phosphorus
Physical parameters - pH, Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, turbidity and temperature

The workshops will be presented by Dan Wruck of Queensland Health Scientific Services. Dan has extensive experience in water quality analysis testing. He performs proficiency testing for Australian and international laboratories and is a NATA assessor and advisor for NATA accreditation. Dan will be ably assisted by Tuyet Nguyen.

Location	Date	Contact
Cairns	21-22 May	Peter Verwey (NRW) - 07 4799 7052 peter.verwey@nrw.qld.gov.au
Townsville	28-29 May	Peter Verwey (NRW) - 07 4799 7052
Rockhampton	31 May - 1 June	Bob Packett (NRW) - 07 4938 4242 robert.packett@nrw.qld.gov.au

WORKSHOP: Applying Water Quality SIP resources to develop local water quality guidelines

In this one day workshop participants will learn how to apply computer-based tools to analyse and interpret water quality data against a range of guidelines. This will enable users to establish the technical basis for developing local water quality guidelines and calculating event-based loads.

The workshop will cover: 1) the context for setting guidelines 2) the basics of the reference, impact and proportional approaches for developing guidelines and targets; 3) loads calculation methods; and 4) the application of computer-based tools using these approaches.

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Townsville - March 14th, 2007
Rockhampton - March 16th, 2007

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