It’s a busy time of year for our Water Quality Monitoring Team! With the intense rain event between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the crew was out most days. (It’s lucky they love the wet.)

We have automatic sensor results from 11 locations across the Innisfail-Tully region and our team, along with 3C Farms, collected water samples from Utchee, Kennedy and Corduroy creek sites, and the Sandy Creek wetland.

Over that period, we amassed 170+ samples.

The water has been sent to laboratories for nutrient, sediment and pesticide analysis. The results will be shared with local landholders.

We’ve been collecting samples from some areas for 8 years now. They’re helping all of us to better understand how our activities in catchments affect water quality, and how wetlands can improve water quality by removing nitrogen and sediment.

Our water quality monitoring projects are funded by the Queensland Government’s Office of the Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage and the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.