Water quality characteristics of water draining different land uses in the Tully/Murray Rivers region

For this particular study, water quality monitoring sites have been situated at specific locations along watercourses within the Tully and Murray catchments where a high proportion of their upstream catchment is represented by one of the major land uses in the region. These include subcatchments where a high proportion of area comprises natural forest, sugarcane, bananas, grazing, urban and plantation forest. This report presents sediment, nutrient and pesticide results from water quality monitoring conducted during the 2005/06 and 2006/07 wet seasons, at both sub-catchment waterway and adjacent floodplume sampling sites. Monitoring was conducted by staff from Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research (ACTFR), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Cardwell Shire Council.