South Burnett Waterwatch Program
2000—2003
Investment: $116,000
Funding body: NHT
Project purpose: Monitoring water quality encourages community awareness and understanding of water quality issues
Key achievements:
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- 23 sites monitored regularly
- 1,000 people involved
- 27 schools provided with teacher assistance, training, resource material, use of monitoring equipment and school excursions
- 4 industry groups and local businesses involved
- 8 schools attended school Waterwatch day at Ficks Crossing
- Waterwatch video of school presentations
- Free water quality testing at 11 field days and local shows.
- Waterwatch office and resources
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BCCA, in partnership with the Wondai Shire Council, opened a Waterwatch office to display resource material, maps and monitoring equipment, and to provide a venue for water quality monitoring training.
The South Burnett Waterwatch Coordinator developed, maintained and entered data into a Waterwatch monitoring database from all 23 monitoring sites in the South Burnett. This data was also provided to the National Waterwatch database.
The coordinator and BCCA provided advice and assistance to community members on monitoring techniques and water quality issues in urban and rural areas of the South Burnett.
The program provided alerts to the community, local government and state government agencies of significant water quality changes in the natural environment through the local media, public meetings and reporting to authorities. In addition, the coordinator engaged with the community to promote water quality issues with water monitoring information displays at local shows and field days.
Program Sponsors
This project was supported by the following partners and investors.
