Canegrowers Mackay initiatives
Canegrowers Mackay has been involved with Reef Rescue one and two, both on the Regional Working Group, and with implementation. The Mackay region had some impressive results: 1. There were 516 [...]
Mackay South Water Recycling Facility
The Mackay South Water Recycling Facility was built in 2008 to treat sewage from approximately 68,000 people in the Mackay Region. The recycling scheme allows for most of the effluent water [...]
Stormwater Quality Management Education
Stormwater education (both community and industry) has been highlighted as one of the five priority implementation projects under Councils voluntary mechanism for stormwater quality management. [...]
Gooseponds/Janes Creek Project
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s (GBRMPA) Reef Guardian Program joins this project by assisting Mackay Regional Council (MRC), a Reef Guardian Council, to coordinate community [...]
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Water Quality Improvement
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Ltd (DBCT P/L) and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Management (DBCTM) are undertaking a Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) to reduce the likelihood of [...]
NQBP Marine Monitoring Program
Coastal marine monitoring in the Mackay Whitsundays region has increased. North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) has implemented a marine program that covers over 100 km of our regions coastline [...]
Twenty Years of Seagrass Research
North Queensland Bulk Ports have been undertaking Seagrass Monitoring in some of their Ports for over 20 years. Researchers at James Cook Universities’ TropWater have been measuring the [...]
Eco Barge
Litter that ends up in waterways poses a threat to marine wildlife, particularly turtles and water birds. Eco Barge Clean Seas works to remove litter from land and marine areas, now having [...]
