Bremer River Catchment and Estuary
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| - Total area: 2,031km2
- Stream network length: 4,425km
- Local Councils: Ipswich City Council, Scenic Rim Council
- Dominant land uses: grazing, native bush, intensive agriculture, urban
- Lower catchment mostly urbanised, rest of the catchment rural, with the majority of the catchment cleared for cattle grazing
- Some areas of natural bush remaining in upper catchment
- Widespread channel and gully erosion in the river and its tributaries
- Riparian vegetation significantly modified; little native vegetation remaining
- Four WWTPs and other point sources discharging into the catchment’s waterways, contributing to sediment and nutrient loads
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|  |  | Freshwater results |
|  |  | | D+ |  | Bremer Catchment |
|  |  | - Streams generally in poor condition.
- Substantial decrease in ecosystem processes offset by increases in all other indicators.
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|  |  | Estuarine results |
|  |  | | F |  | Bremer Estuary |
|  |  | - Poor water quality with continued high nutrients, high turbidity and low dissolved oxygen concentration.
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