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Cleveland Bay Maintenance Dredging Water Quality Monitoring Program

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Collection of water quality data (turbidity, underwater PAR (light), salinity, temperature and depth) at five sites around Cleveland Bay off Townsville to monitor water quality in conjunction with Maintenance Dredging conducted by the Port of Townsville Limited.Equipment was deployed from September 2014 with monthly servicing and download of the data, water samples were also taken each month and analysed for TSS.The work was completed under a contract with the Port of Townsville Limited. Sampling equipment was located at five 'sensitive receptor' sites within Cleveland Bay (seagrass sites: western Cleveland Bay and Virago Shoals (off Palarenda), Coral Sites: Florence Bay, Geoffrey Bay and Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island) to monitor water quality in conjunction with the operation of maintenance dredging by the Port of Townsville Limited. Data collected every 10 minutes and downloaded on monthly sampling trips.

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Field Value
Title Cleveland Bay Maintenance Dredging Water Quality Monitoring Program
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/baba39aa-4ffa-4367-88b4-ed9ed0f9c59d
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 20/11/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Cleveland Bay Maintenance Dredging Water Quality Monitoring Program". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/cleveland-bay-maintenance-dredging-water-quality-monitoring-program