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The Taroom Shire forms part of the Upper Dawson River Catchment in Central Queensland.  The Dawson River flows into the Fitzroy River, which ends at Rockhampton and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

• General Introduction to Water Quality in Taroom Shire
• Water Sampling the Technical Manual
• [Results from sampling at Taroom]
• Schematic diagram of sampling network
• Monitoring Site List

These documents have been developed by our group for the community, and are provided here on the understanding that they may be used and modified providing the following acknowledgement is included: Modified from an original document published by Taroom Shire Landcare Group Inc. Wandoan Qld [Date published].  We ask that this information is not to be sold or re-used in a commercial product.

• Water Quality Technical Manual (32 A5 pages)

  PDF [13MB]        PUB [1.6MB]

• Water Quality NLP Overview 3 fold Brochure PUB [65kb]

• WQ Monitoring Plan PDF [xxMB]
• Monitoring sites XLS [29kb] zipped ArcView9 Files [21kb]
• Schematic diagram of sampling network [351kb]

External Links

• Queensland Health Scientific Services
• Guidelines and monitoring protocols
• Water Quality Event Monitoring - Fitzroy Jan-Feb 2005 PDF [573kb]