1. Water Monitoring
GBRI5
Runoff to Reef catchment scale
monitoring
Alan Hooper

2. Wet Tropics Coast
• Sample near end of system
• Barron River at Myola
• North Johnstone River at Tung Oil
• South Johnstone River at upstream Mill
• Tully River at Euramo
• Herbert River at Ingham sample by Terrain

3. • Monitoring for runoff to reef is generally at
long term Gauging Stations
• Some new gauging stations have been
installed for this project
• Local site is on the Tully River upstream of
the coastal agricultural area

4. • Tully River at Tully Gorge Gauging Station in
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Colours

5. • Gauging Stations used as discharge data
is available at these sites
• Gauging stations have telemetry
• Old – PSTN and Next G polled from
Brisbane
• New – Next G and Satellite IP equipped
sites FTP data whenever there is a
change in near real time
• Only local site next G IP is on South
Johnstone River

7. • Equipment used is commercial off the
shelf
• Statewide support by Hydrographic
Support in Brisbane
• They provide the equipment and repair/
maintain/update equipment
• Also adapt equipment to specific needs
• All gauging stations to be updated to
Campbell CR1000 with Next G or Satellite
IP over the next five years

8. Recent Data North Johnstone River at Tung Oil

9. Recent data at Tully River at Euramo

10. Data Management
• Time series data stored on HYDSTRA – now
owned by Kisters AG
• Results from Water Sample analysis currently
stored on HYDSTRA as well as other
departmental data bases
• Stores both unvalidated near real time telemetry
data and validated data
• Stations polled by SODA - a Kisters product
• IP sites FTP to HYDSTRA and HYdsupp

11. Stage Discharge ratings developed using conventional
current meters, Teledyne RDI Work Horse 600Khz ADCPS
and Sontek M9 ADCP (pictured below)