Monitoring the progress of change in land use management, community acceptance and application of actions under the strategy occurred at various sites and properties across the four subcatchment areas.

Local authorities were encouraged to adopt the Intergrated Catchment Management (ICM) philosophy into their planning schemes under the Integrated Planning Act through presentations to shire councils, proposals, participation in community meetings and interaction with planning consultants and town planners. Visits were made to the four subcatchment areas throughout the year to begin developing plans to implement ‘on-ground’ measures that address priority areas.

‘Stormwater’ was identified as a concern for the BCCA East subcatchment so resource materials, maps, photographs, technical information and expertise were collected from other catchments throughout the state to inform the discussions about this concern.

‘Native vegetation’ was identified as a concern in BCCA Central subcatchment. A conservation and management project in the Kingaroy Shire was highlighted as a model that could be extended to the other local government areas within the sub-catchment.

Education and awareness initiatives in this project included a weed and pest display at the Wondai Garden Festival and the development of case studies to promote the excellent work of a number of organisations and individuals. The case studies were well received at the Landcare and Catchment Management Conference in Goondiwindi and the intention was to compile them into a booklet.

Community On-ground Workshop Series (COWS) included free workshops on topics of interest such as plant identification and seed collection and propagation, weed identification and control, soil and vegetation.

Monitoring activities compared data to baseline studies in the State of the Rivers and resources assessment projects within the catchment, demand for Land and Water Management Plans, adoption of strategies by local government planning, usage of the BCCA Resource Inventory, water quality reports and extent of weed infestation (aquatic weeds and parthenium).