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Albert River Catchment and Estuary
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Catchment Facts |
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- Total area: 786km2
- Stream network length: 1,691km
- Local Councils: Beaudesert (pop. 62,441), Gold Coast (pop. 472,279)
- Dominant land uses: native bush, grazing, intensive agriculture, rural residential
- Headwaters rise in Lamington National Park and flow through grazing, farming and rural residential areas before joining the Logan River 11.2km upstream from its mouth
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Freshwater results |
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Albert Catchment |
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- Streams generally in good condition
- An improvement in the nutrient cycling indicator was largely offset by declines in physical-chemical, aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish indicators
- Scores were similar across all indicators this year
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Estuarine results |
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Albert Estuary |
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- High nutrient levels throughout the estuary, low dissolved oxygen levels adjacent to the Beenleigh WWTP discharge
- Lower freshwater inputs from the catchment resulting in much higher salinity levels throughout the estuary compared with 2006
- Intact natural riparian habitat in the inter-tidal zone with heavily impacted background habitat throughout
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