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Ecologically relevant targets for pollutant discharge from the drainage basins of the Fitzroy Region, Great Barrier Reef


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Title: Ecologically relevant targets for pollutant discharge from the drainage basins of the Fitzroy Region, Great Barrier Reef
Authors: Brodie, J.
Lewis, S.
Wooldridge, S.
Bainbridge, Z.
Waterhouse, J.
Honchin, C.
ASFA Subjects: Pollutants
Water quality
Runoff
APAIS Subject: Standards
Location: Mackay/Capricorn Management Area
Category: Water quality
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Centre for Tropical Water & Aquatic Ecosystem Research Research (TropWATER)
Abstract: [Extract] Ecologically relevant targets (ERTs) attempt to define the pollutant load reductions that would be required to meet the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Water Quality Guidelines, which are set at a standard considered to be suitable to maintain ecosystem health. Thus ERTs are required to be met to achieve the overall long-term Reef Plan goal “To ensure that by 2020 the quality of water entering the reef from broadscale land use has no detrimental effect on the reef’s health and resilience”....The methods for deriving the ERTs vary between the pollutants. These are summarised....and described in detail in the body of this report.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11017/3019
Type of document: Report
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