The Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) together with the Department of
Environment and Resource Management (DERM) are identifying
environmental values (EVs) and establishing water quality
objectives (WQOs) for the Fitzroy Basin. The final EVs and WQOs
will be suitable for scheduling under the Environmental Protection
(Water) Policy 2009. For more information on the EPP (Water), EVs
and WQOs please refer to the DERM
Environmental values - Environmental Protection (Water) Policy 2009
site.
This process builds on water quality components of the
Central
Queensland Strategy for Sustainability – 2004 and Beyond and extends objectives of FBA’s Water Quality Improvement
Report (available for download below) into freshwaters and
estuarine reaches of the Fitzroy Basin.
Water
Quality Improvement Report Part 1
Water
Quality Improvement Report Part 2
This project occurs in the context of a range of water quality
activities being implemented for the Fitzroy Basin. For further
details about the Queensland Government's management of water
quality in the Fitzroy Basin please refer to the
Fitzroy River
website.
The Fitzroy Basin
With an area of 142 600 km
2
, the Fitzroy Basin is the second largest seaward draining basin
in Australia after the Murray Darling Basin. Although technically 6
major catchments exist in the basin, for the purposes of this
process, the Basin was divided into 10 catchments: Isaac, Connors,
Upper Nogoa, Lower Nogoa, Comet, Mackenzie, Upper Dawson, Lower
Dawson, Callide and Fitzroy. To gain the level of detail we
required for this process, we then divided the catchments into
smaller, more manageable areas to which the Environmental Values
were assigned.
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Map of the Fitzroy Basin showing the division of the 10 main
catchments and the Environmental Value's sub-catchments.
Note: The numbers on the map relate to the sub-catchment listing on
the EV's tables.
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