SAFETY ALERT! Flooding
SAFETY ALERT! Flooding
Ensuring high quality water supply for the Gladstone region begins at the source – the Lake Awoonga Catchment in the Boyne Valley. The Lake Awoonga catchment covers more than 23,000 hectares.
Water quality is significantly influenced by the type and management of land use activities in the catchment, with nutrient and sediment levels attributed to the land clearing and cattle grazing that has occurred in the Boyne Valley over the past 100 years. It is vital we work in partnership with our neighbours, catchment landowners and the broader community to achieve better land management and water quality outcomes.
We also have an experienced team of land management, environmental specialists and catchment officers, who manage and maintain our catchment land and the recreational use of our sites.
They undertake duties including water quality monitoring, aquatic ecosystem monitoring, fire management, illegal access monitoring and management, pest and weed control, as well as managing public access to our very popular recreational facilities.
The Gladstone Area Water Board proudly acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and water on which we operate. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and recognise the ongoing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to the land and water on which we rely.
