Water quality improvement plans
Under its Coastal Catchments Initiative, the Australian Government has funded the Southeast Queensland (SEQ) Healthy Waterways Partnership and Great Barrier Reef (GBR) regional NRM bodies and local governments to develop Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIPs) in SEQ and most of the GBR catchments/regions. The EPA is working with all of these bodies to ensure that the process they use to establish the waterway values and uses (i.e. environmental values), and then WQ objectives/targets to protect these values and uses, is consistent with the Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 1997. (The key requirements are appropriate consultation with stakeholders and community and consideration of social and economic impacts of protecting the EVs).
Information on these WQIPs can be found on the following websites:
- SEQ WQIP
- Burnett-Baffle WQIP
- Mackay-Whitsunday WQIP
- Burdekin WQIP
- Ross-Black Basins (Townsville) WQIP
- Tully WQIP
- Barron/Trinity Inlet
- Douglas WQIP
Last updated: 06 June 2008
