Queensland Murray Darling Committee: Gradna Creek
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Reference no: BNS24
About the water
Collected at: Gradna Creek, [South Talwood], Queensland
-28.6144, 149.3233
Collected by: Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC)
Through involvement in Landcare and the Queensland Murray Darling Committee's Sub Catchment Planning work.
Water quality:
| Turbidity: | 30NTUs |
| pH: | 8.5 |
| Salinity: | Electrical Conductivity (microsiemens/cm) 1270 |
Low, just running, sample taken from small pool. Irrigation is common in the area.
ACT Waterwatch says:
Notice the correlation between irrigation and extremely high salinity in this group of samples.
About the site
Representative site for river catchment condition and trend monitoring.
What's going on:
Some improved riparian management and agricultural land management in the catchment through Landholder initiatives supported by Landcare and the Queensland Murray Darling Committee with State and Federal Government funding.
Monitoring as a representative site for river catchment condition and trend monitoring.