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Redlands Creek Catchment, Tingalpa Estuary and Eprapah Creek Estuary
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Catchment Facts |
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- Total area: 281km2
- Stream network length: 525km
- Local Councils: Brisbane (pop.956,129), Logan (pop. 173,264), Redland (pop. 127,627)
- Dominant land uses: urban, native bush, intensive agriculture, market gardens, grazing
- Tingalpa Reservoir impounds Tingalpa Creek
- Four WWTPs discharge into the Redlands/Waterloo Bay catchment
- Rapid urbanisation of the catchment over recent years has led to the conversion of market gardens/agricultural land to residential areas and construction of canal estates
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Freshwater results |
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Redlands Catchment |
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- Streams generally in very poor condition
- Declines in all indicators since last year
- Results for nutrient cycling, aquatic macroinvertebrate and fish indicators were the worst for several years
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Estuarine results |
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Tingalpa Estuary |
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- Elevated nutrients and low dissolved oxygen levels in middle and upper reaches
- Elevated phytoplakton abundance in middle reaches
- Extensive intact natural riparian habitat throughout most of the estuary
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Eprapah Estuary |
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- Estuary strongly influenced by elevated nutrients and phytoplakton abundance in upper reaches adjacent to the WWTP discharge
- Extensive intact riparian habitat throughout the estuary
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