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Water quality improvement plans

Water quality improvement plans (WQIPs) are catchment and regionally based water quality management plans. They seek to improve water quality by reducing the amount of key pollutants (e.g. nutrients, sediment and chemicals) from the Reef catchments entering waterways and carried to the Reef lagoon.

WQIPs build on and enhance the existing water quality management components of regional natural resource management plans.

The development of WQIPs is being led by regional NRM bodies and local councils. Additional assistance is provided by GBRMPA, CSIRO, EPA, NRW, DPI&F and local communities.

WQIPs are being developed in the following catchments:

Barron basin, Cairns urban area and Trinity Inlet by Terrain Natural Resource Management (non-government site)
Tully, Murray and Hinchinbrook Island basins by Terrain Natural Resource Management (non-government site)
Burdekin and Haughton Basins by Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM (non-government site)
Ross and Black basins by Townsville and Thuringowa City Councils (non-government site)
Proserpine, O'Connell, Pioneer and Plane basins by Mackay Whitsunday NRM Group (non-government site)
Burnett, Baffle and Kolan basins and Elliott sub-basin by Burnett Mary Regional Group (non-government site) for NRM

A water quality improvement plan has already been developed for:

Mossman and Daintree Basins by Douglas Shire Council (non-government site)

Additional investment is supporting water quality improvement activities occurring in:

Styx, Shoalwater, Waterpark, Fitzroy, Calliope and Boyne basins by Fitzroy Basin Association Inc (non-government site)
Mary, Burrum and Fraser Island basins by the Burnett Mary Regional Group for NRM and Wide Bay Water

For further information about the progress of individual WQIPs, visit the Regional NRM website.

Last reviewed 31 August 2009

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