Healthy Waterways Report Card - How does your local rate?

[Just_chips]

Healthy Waterways have released their report cards on SEQ creek and river systems.

How does your local stack up? Mine looks pretty sick

http://www.healthywaterways.org/Heal...ntResults.aspx

Kev

[finga]

Got an F
But the Logan hasn't got any worse.....

Overall things aren't looking that nice with most areas slipping back a notch or two.

[Just_chips]

That sucks.

I thought a D+ was bad for Cabbage Tree Creek.

At lease the Pine River is looking good with a B+ and a steady improvement over the last few years but I think this is since they had to release the water from the dam and really flush the system out.

Kev

[Chas & Clarry]

At lease the Pine River is looking good with a B+ and a steady improvement over the last few years but I think this is since they had to release the water from the dam and really flush the system out.

Kev

I read it as a C overall...maybe I skimmed too quickly and got it wrong. C is pretty average for the Pine by the look of things over the past decade or so.

Tim

[Feral]

Pine has been dodgy since they dumped all the acid sulphate soil (and the caustic and lime to try an neutralise it) from the tunnels in the old gravel pits next to the highway on the south pine.

[WalrusLike]

Hey, thanks for that link... very interesting.

Bremer in the Ipswich region is gradually improving by the looks of that. But the mid Brissy river is going rapidly downhill. Wonder why?

[MudRiverDan]

I was down the pine last week near the bridge, south side on the flats trying to catch a fish and one thing I noticed was a lot of dead blue swimmer sandies about 15 cm across.
I also caught one live one in my braid and let him go but wondered if it was not sick and on the way out.

Anyone else notice this?

Also report cards are strange, I remember Oxley creek was a bad one but at the time I used to go there for bait and easily catch 30-40 big river prawns without fail...

Also lot of my old spots that yielded flathead, threadie, bream, grunter and cod on regular trips in the mid river now only yield small catties, this was 2009, have not done any good mid river since before the floods..

I did alright straight after the floods but I think there has been a lagg effect.

Dan

[cuzzamundi]

Tim, pretty sure the 'C' result is for the catchment, which pertains to the fresher upper arms/reaches. The Pine's brackish and saltier reaches got a 'B plus.

Holy Sh&t, looks like old Cabbage Tree is still a pig stye. Been fishing ok over the past few years, and many a fish from there has passed through my system, but it does make me wonder...and hope I don't chunder!

Cuzza

I read it as a C overall...maybe I skimmed too quickly and got it wrong. C is pretty average for the Pine by the look of things over the past decade or so.

Tim

[PADDLES]

well i'm a little happier, it looks like the caboolture river is on the improve as well as the little section of deception bay out the front of beachmere. it's still not up to high scores but it's getting better which is great.

[WalrusLike]

... Bremer in the Ipswich region is gradually improving by the looks of that......

oh.... I was only looking at the catchment. The actual river is solidly F like it has been for years. Bummer. It's good that the catchment is improving but something is holding the river back.

[WalrusLike]

Snot grass is the name I think for that green woolly shite that gets on your line and clumps into a pile you have to pull off bit by bit.

Is that the "Lyngbya" they refer to in the report? It looks like it to me from the search I did and wikipedia article.

The references seem to say that it is a form of toxic blue green algae that causes skin irritation on contact.... that hasn't been my experience so perhaps it's a different thing?