Fitzroy catchment fish sampling and health assessment 2008

Source: DPI&F
"Catfish were caught and reported to Biosecurity Queensland by a fisherman from Tartarus Weir on 3 September 2008 with symptoms of redness of all fins. Concerns about the water quality in the Fitzroy River Catchment were subsequently raised in conjunction with reports of release of waters from Ensham Coal Mine, Emerald. A initiative to investigate these concerns was commenced with a fish sampling, testing and assessment surveillance by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries as part of wider monitoring activities by the Environmental Protection Agency, Queensland Health, Department of Natural Resources and Water; working together with Ensham Coal Mine."

Turbulence in small sub-tropical estuary with semi-diurnal tides

"In natural estuaries, contaminant transport is driven by the turbulent momentum mixing. The predictions of scalar dispersion can rarely be predicted accurately because of a lack of fundamental understanding of the turbulence structure in estuaries. Herein detailed turbulence field measurements were conducted at high frequency and continuously for up to 50 hours per investigation in a small subtropical estuary with semi-diurnal tides".In 2nd International Conference on Estuaries and Coasts (ICEC-2006)