NQ GAS- WORLEY SERVICES
LANDSCAPE REMEDIATION
OTHER LAND MANAGERS
The Other Land Managers activity area took a catchment‐wide, integrated approach to improving water quality outcomes. While non-grazing land managers control only 8 per cent of the BBB, they are highly-visible and often seen as major contributors to sediment loads.
Engaging non-grazing land managers in water quality activities is crucial to shifting attitudes and increasing knowledge. The program focused on several key regional organisations, Whitsunday Regional Council and NQ Gas.
These organisations were chosen for their capacity to drive significant and sustained water quality improvements.
LDC is collaborating with other land managers in the BBB region, including mining companies, each of which requires a tailored approach. Many of these organisations already have sustainability plans or long-term environmental commitments. NQ Dry Tropics’ long-term goal is to work with them to embed reef water quality improvement as a core objective within their governance frameworks.
Undertaking site visits along the North Queensland Gas Pipeline between Newlands district, near Collinsville and Woodstock, near Townsville, are from left, Caitlin Mill, Field Officer, Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee; John Day, Soil Conservation Consultant, Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee; Cameron Jackson, NQGP Pipeline Operator – Worley Power Services( who has since moved on to work with a different company); and Bernie Claussen, Soil Conservation Officer, NQ Dry Tropics.
NQ GAS- WORLEY SERVICES
A collaboration between Worley Power Services and NQ Dry Tropics has delivered more than just erosion control, it sparked a new wave of learning and knowledge-sharing on the ground.
As part of a project to tackle erosion across 10 sites along a 200km stretch of natural gas pipeline( from Newlands near Collinsville to Woodstock near Townsville), the team brought in soil erosion expert John Day from the Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee( MRCCC) to design remediation plans tailored to each site.
For Cameron Jackson, the pipeline operator with Worley, it was an eye-opening experience.
“ Spending a week in the field with John gave me the chance to understand different erosion control techniques,” he said.
“ We looked at how to reduce sediment washing into waterways and eventually into the Great Barrier Reef, things like fixing gullies, road and streambank erosion, and improving ground cover without disturbing the good vegetation.”
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