Herbert Water Quality Monitoring Program (HWQMP) is a three-year monitoring program that began in July of 2011. The HWQMP is an industry initiative that aims to determine the relative contribution of land use to the delivery of reef pollutant loads to the receiving...
Between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2012 sampling was undertaken at 16 sites within the Herbert Catchment as part of the Herbert Water Quality Monitoring Project (HWQMP). The aim of the project was to identify contaminants in the various sub-catchments with varying land...
Herbicidal impact on the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) lagoon came to the forefront in 2009 with the Queensland Government’s Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Act 2009 and the concurrent review of diuron by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary...
THE EFFICACY OF alternative pre-emergent herbicides to diuron applied just after harvest on green trash blanketed ratoons was investigated in three field trials in the wet tropics, Far North Queensland. The study also compared the losses of the tested pre-emergent...
