Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

Pre-clear wetland system extent by Water Quality Improvement Plan catchment
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WQIP catchment	Total area (ha)	Wetland area by system				Total wetland area (ha)
		intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural)	lacustrine (natural)	palustrine (natural)	riverine
Total	42,620,437	456,428	18,609	377,025	* n/a	* n/a
Abbot Bay catchments (Burdekin)	118,919	6,488		189	4,937	11,613
Alligator Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	20,918	1,032		3,436	392	4,860
Allingham Creek (Burdekin)	109,324		72	2,196	3,911	6,180
Andromache River (Mackay Whitsunday)	40,599			207	927	1,134
Annan River estuary (Eastern Cape York)	1,883	742		205	156	1,103
Annan River - lower, outside National Park (incl. Esk River, Hardwicke Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	18,005	47		24	678	749
Annan River - upper (above gorge) outside National Park (Eastern Cape York)	35,739			12	655	667
Annie River, Saltwater Creek and Fifteen Mile Creek (Eastern Cape York)	269,719	68		6,866	1,935	8,869
Baffle (Burnett Mary)	408,475	13,532	13	13,865	8,723	36,133
Bakers Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,822	1,073		2,888	216	4,177
Balclutha Creek (Eastern Cape York)	42,008	30		410	433	873
Barratta Creek (Burdekin)	116,808	3,615	22	1,790	4,865	10,292
Barron (Wet Tropics)	218,801	1,322	56	1,291	5,874	8,542
Basalt River (Burdekin)	286,199			2,827	6,288	9,115
Bathurst and Ninian Bays (Eastern Cape York)	24,974	7			< 1	7
Bathurst Bay draining creeks (incl. Muck River) (Eastern Cape York)	53,352	1,825		240	306	2,372
Belyando floodplain (Burdekin)	203,024			3,094	3,241	6,335
Black River (Burdekin)	147,723	3,574		1,123	5,374	10,072
Blackrock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	23,930	1,618		249	326	2,193
Blacks Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	71,090				2,190	2,190
Bogie River (Burdekin)	227,541		12	45	11,241	11,298
Bowen River (Burdekin)	113,792			20	7,191	7,211
Boyne River (Fitzroy)	249,748	2,613		145	4,837	7,595
Broken River (Burdekin)	228,731				6,977	6,977
Burdekin Delta (Burdekin)	113,151	17,720		4,567	7,780	30,067
Burdekin River (below Dam) (Burdekin)	146,880			366	8,519	8,885
Burdekin River (Blue Range) (Burdekin)	272,356			314	10,386	10,699
Burdekin River (Dam) (Burdekin)	370,188		< 1	300	28,855	29,155
Burnett (Burnett Mary)	3,319,539	1,356		4,014	57,688	63,057
Burrum (Burnett Mary)	337,174	2,780		11,436	12,227	26,443
Callide Creek (Fitzroy)	766,479		67	748	* n/a	* n/a
Calliope River (Fitzroy)	217,716	5,165	22	48	1,219	6,455
Camel Creek (Burdekin)	157,869		772	133	4,339	5,244
Campaspe River (Burdekin)	674,667		490	1,256	26,711	28,456
Cape Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	15,032	4,882		1,085	25	5,992
Cape Flattery dune lakes (Eastern Cape York)	25,028	394	743	2,063	12	3,212
Cape River (Burdekin)	913,940		504	1,916	23,288	25,708
Carmichael River (Burdekin)	978,227			1,940	12,090	14,030
Carmilla Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	12,734	565		550	292	1,406
Chester River (incl. Scrubby Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	27,577	2	46	111	947	1,106
Clarke River (Burdekin)	646,961		47	2,404	18,863	21,314
Claudie River (incl. Deep, Swamp creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	15,927	165		71	630	866
Coastal creeks and dunes (north of Nesbit) (Eastern Cape York)	44,836	828		1,115	* n/a	* n/a
Coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York)	48,061	401	60	2,942	47	3,449
Coastal dunes north shore of Endeavour River (Eastern Cape York)	5,863		21	151	< 1	172
Comet River (Fitzroy)	1,729,049		3,282	6,932	16,226	26,440
Connors River (Fitzroy)	952,700		73	1,474	27,255	28,802
Constant Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	26,516	3,241		198	217	3,657
Curtis Island (Fitzroy)	58,456	14,812		949	174	15,935
Daintree (Wet Tropics)	210,670	3,315		2,843	3,542	9,700
Deighton River (Eastern Cape York)	67,273			91	617	708
Diamond Creek (Burdekin)	213,725			55	1,650	1,705
Don River (Burdekin)	120,812	2,304		1,129	7,006	10,439
Douglas Creek (Burdekin)	122,846			6	3,082	3,088
Dry River (Burdekin)	202,310		2	3,670	4,054	7,726
Eden Lassie Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	54,000	2,323		223	* n/a	* n/a
Endeavour River estuary (Eastern Cape York)	2,257	1,298		90	233	1,620
Endeavour River - lower (incl. Cameron, Poison creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	24,037	102		505	369	976
Endeavour River - north branch (incl. Isabella, Mango Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	18,019			88	253	340
Endeavour River - right branch (Eastern Cape York)	38,771			1,054	630	1,685
Endeavour River - south branch (Eastern Cape York)	14,720					0
Escape River (Eastern Cape York)	32,685	457	215	3,455	< 1	4,128
Estuaries draining into Temple Bay, Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York)	4,110	3,467		7	5	3,478
Estuaries (incl. Jacky Jacky, Escape, Harmer) (Eastern Cape York)	26,482	24,034		187	< 1	24,222
Estuaries (incl. Stewart, Rocky, other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York)	9,927	6,234		204	13	6,451
Fanning River (Burdekin)	110,772			207	5,702	5,909
Fitzroy River (Fitzroy)	1,133,947	27,769	628	16,513	15,941	60,851
Flaggy Rock Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,893	644		228	* n/a	* n/a
Fox Creek (Burdekin)	320,794			298	3,248	3,546
Gillinbin Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	13,107	424		2,387	414	3,225
Glenmore Creek (Burdekin)	160,911			54	6,940	6,994
Glennie Creek (Eastern Cape York)	36,334			244		244
Goanna, Breakfast, Whiphandle creeks (Eastern Cape York)	56,201	15		272	1,038	1,325
Gorge, Running creeks (Eastern Cape York)	41,345	20		993	582	1,595
Gray Creek (Burdekin)	169,505			90	3,606	3,696
Gregory River (Mackay Whitsunday)	31,028	2,227		275	* n/a	* n/a
Hann Creek (Burdekin)	185,299			2	7,240	7,242
Hann Creek (Eastern Cape York)	28,672				2	2
Harmer, Little Harmer Creeks (Eastern Cape York)	108,898	161	361	1,781	312	2,615
Haughton River (Burdekin)	232,550	17,830	162	3,259	10,169	31,420
Herbert (Wet Tropics)	984,235	15,057	98	28,317	34,597	78,069
Hinchinbrook Island (Wet Tropics)	39,543	7,937		517	179	8,634
Indian Bay (Eastern Cape York)	863					0
Jack River and Beattie Creek (Eastern Cape York)	148,352			1,968	* n/a	* n/a
Jacky Jacky Creek (Eastern Cape York)	31,041	46		5,753	* n/a	* n/a
Jeannie estuaries (incl. Horwick, Starcke, Dead Dog and other estuaries) (Eastern Cape York)	9,543	8,533	0	< 1	* n/a	* n/a
Jeannie River (Eastern Cape York)	46,942	100		28	* n/a	* n/a
Johnstone (Wet Tropics)	232,153	3,766	4	10,184	1,799	15,752
Kangaroo River and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York)	28,105	13		290	997	1,299
Keelbottom Creek (Burdekin)	164,284			114	5,294	5,407
Kennedy Inlet / Newcastle Bay (Eastern Cape York)	24,824	403	16	62		481
Kennedy River and Little Kennedy Creek (Eastern Cape York)	253,270			3,302	1,766	5,068
Kirk River (Burdekin)	135,590				8,412	8,412
Kolan (Burnett Mary)	290,449	1,832		3,182	8,452	13,466
Landers Creek (Burdekin)	106,730		20	89	5,390	5,498
Laura River (incl. Mosman River, Kennedy Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	203,164			657	938	1,595
Lethebrook (Mackay Whitsunday)	37,352	701		4,078	* n/a	* n/a
Little Bowen River (Burdekin)	147,193		64	723	2,641	3,428
Little Laura River (incl. Shepherd, Pine Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	89,372			692	991	1,683
Lloyd Bay (Eastern Cape York)	5,422	518				518
Lockhart, Claudie and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York)	9,537	7,782		11	26	7,819
Lockhart River (incl. Eden, Arroto and Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	82,829	6	9	345	2,875	3,235
Lockhart town and surrounds (incl. dunes) (Eastern Cape York)	4,018	69		< 1	371	440
Logan Creek (Burdekin)	403,627			59	2,267	2,326
Lolworth Creek (Burdekin)	350,352		1,081	8,986	5,096	15,163
Lower Cape River (Burdekin)	298,561		11	215	6,025	6,251
Lower Dawson River (Fitzroy)	1,991,424		159	7,312	12,273	19,745
Lower Isaac River (Fitzroy)	272,514			598	5,888	6,486
Lower Suttor River (Burdekin)	268,899			424	8,100	8,524
Mackay City (Mackay Whitsunday)	17,126	1,863		2,977	408	5,248
Mackenzie River (Fitzroy)	1,297,741		141	5,847	22,929	28,916
Margaret Bay (Eastern Cape York)	833	3				3
Marion Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	11,201	710		941	409	2,061
Marrett River, Sandalwood and Birthday creeks (Eastern Cape York)	134,518	14		1,167	* n/a	* n/a
Mary (Burnett Mary)	946,581	4,433		13,728	25,896	44,057
Massy Creek, Rocky River (Eastern Cape York)	48,405	1		349	2,621	2,971
McIvor, Morgan rivers and coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York)	58,801	501	321	3,000	639	4,461
Middle and West Claudie Rivers (incl. Gordon, Scrubby creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	17,736					0
Mistake Creek (Burdekin)	587,421			911	9,299	10,210
Morehead River, Healy Creek and Hann River (Eastern Cape York)	425,766			8,294	2,869	11,162
Mossman (Wet Tropics)	47,285	1,770		494	906	3,170
Mulgrave-Russell (Wet Tropics)	198,027	5,644	94	14,895	4,690	25,323
Murray Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	46,631	2,816		183	1,193	4,191
Murray (Wet Tropics)	110,656	8,690		10,459	682	19,831
Myrtle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	29,516	1,526		1,490	365	3,381
Native Companion Creek (Burdekin)	548,474			311	* n/a	* n/a
Nesbit, Chester and adjacent estuaries (Eastern Cape York)	4,338	3,022		39	85	3,146
Nesbit River (incl. Leo Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	68,059	< 1		444	121	565
Nogoa River (Fitzroy)	1,616,991		205	1,740	19,052	20,997
Normanby estuarine waters (incl. Bizant, Normanby, Saltwater and others adjacent Princess Charlotte Bay) (Eastern Cape York)	54,162	27,802		874	82	28,758
Normanby /lower Laura rivers (incl. Brown, Cabbage Tree creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	205,565		78	4,528	986	5,592
Normanby River - lower and Bizant River (Eastern Cape York)	105,992	402		5,391	2,734	8,526
Normanby - upper (incl. West, East and Granite Normanby Rivers, Bridge Ck) (Eastern Cape York)	290,818			2,471	6,854	9,326
North Jacky Jacky Creek – dune lakes (Eastern Cape York)	13,858	142	155	746	289	1,332
North Jeannie coastal creeks outside National Park (incl. Horwick River, Wakooka Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	110,554	5,269	45	628	1,059	7,002
North Kennedy River (Eastern Cape York)	191,510			4,139	1,439	5,578
Oaky , Wallace, Lyon creeks (Eastern Cape York)	33,909				584	584
OConnell River (Mackay Whitsunday)	48,766	613		753	992	2,358
Olive River estuary (Eastern Cape York)	751	470		101		571
Olive River (incl. Horseshoe, Scorpion creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	124,133	< 1	< 1	3,508	* n/a	* n/a
Pascoe - headwaters (incl. Little Pascoe, Fall creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	64,780			74	3,274	3,348
Pascoe - lower, outside National Park (incl. Tin and coastal creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	36,638	622			832	1,454
Pascoe - mid (incl. Garraway, Brown creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	31,243				266	266
Pascoe - mid (incl. Hamilton Creek) (Eastern Cape York)	11,269				206	206
Pascoe River estuary and other estuaries draining into Wemouth Bay (Eastern Cape York)	1,325	112		8	4	124
Pascoe - upper (incl. Yam, One Mile creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	36,658				115	115
Pelican Creek (Burdekin)	148,083			1	3,494	3,495
Pioneer River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday)	54,788			2,135	3,255	5,390
Plane Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	15,963	987		454	299	1,740
Port of Cape Flattery (land side) (Eastern Cape York)	9,437	10	557	349	5	921
Port of Cape Flattery marine waters (Eastern Cape York)	14,707	22				22
Port of Cooktown marine waters (Eastern Cape York)	3,067	11				11
Port of Quintell Beach marine waters (Eastern Cape York)	1,364	2				2
Princess Charlotte Bay (Eastern Cape York)	137,329	25				25
Proserpine River Main Channel (Mackay Whitsunday)	8,490			147	788	935
Reliance Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	10,662	1,592		756	150	2,499
Repulse Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	25,555	1,740	2	6	72	1,819
Rocky Dam Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	51,839	5,983		9,984	1,727	17,694
Rollston River (Burdekin)	144,919			52	6,108	6,160
Rosella Creek (Burdekin)	147,410			171	* n/a	* n/a
Rosetta Creek (Burdekin)	244,047			458	5,530	5,989
Ross River (Burdekin)	131,054	9,609		262	6,263	16,134
Running River (Burdekin)	110,538			1	3,612	3,614
Sandy Creek (Burdekin)	318,941			301	1,282	1,583
Sandy Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	49,935	842		4,943	1,218	7,003
Sarina Beaches (Mackay Whitsunday)	8,458	787		396	* n/a	* n/a
Sellheim River (Burdekin)	170,458			26	4,904	4,929
Shelburne Bay dune lakes (Eastern Cape York)	49,236	69	2,773	891	1	3,735
Shelburne Bay (Eastern Cape York)	25,164	24			< 1	24
Shoalwater Creek (Fitzroy)	361,610	51,609		1,093	6,395	59,097
South Annan coastal creeks outside National Park (Eastern Cape York)	15,542	559		318	207	1,084
St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,566	1,473		56	802	2,332
Star River (Burdekin)	199,399			163	7,268	7,431
Starcke River (Eastern Cape York)	50,093	66	38	991	* n/a	* n/a
Stewart River - headwaters outside National Park (incl. Little Stewart, Station creeks) (Eastern Cape York)	38,767				364	364
Stewart River, Terrible Creek (Eastern Cape York)	37,627			37	344	381
Stones Creek (Burdekin)	77,525				2,920	2,920
Styx River (Fitzroy)	299,512	34,991	26	611	5,602	41,230
Temple Bay and Hudson Bay (Eastern Cape York)	5,735	4				4
Theresa Creek (Fitzroy)	1,149,860			1,142	16,372	17,514
Thompsons Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,013	3,936		6,125	94	10,156
Trevethan Creek outside National Park (Eastern Cape York)	9,497			1	451	452
Tully (Wet Tropics)	168,340	1,920	2	12,171	1,831	15,922
Upper Belyando River (Burdekin)	583,589			175	* n/a	* n/a
Upper Burdekin River (Burdekin)	448,172		2,276	13,245	9,873	25,393
Upper Cattle Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,841				525	525
Upper Dawson River (Fitzroy)	2,315,530		2,383	3,275	* n/a	* n/a
Upper Isaac River (Fitzroy)	1,012,469		380	3,036	23,127	26,543
Upper Proserpine River (Mackay Whitsunday)	26,621				* n/a	* n/a
Upper Suttor River (Burdekin)	515,807			582	10,780	11,362
Upstart Bay catchments (Burdekin)	129,031	12,054		2,521	5,672	20,247
Walker Bay (Eastern Cape York)	246	10				10
Walsh Bay (Eastern Cape York)	189	1				1
Waterhole Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	21,131	1,375		1,109	* n/a	* n/a
Waterpark Creek (Fitzroy)	184,786	28,317		9,179	7,988	45,484
Weary Bay (Eastern Cape York)	540					0
West Hill Creek (Mackay Whitsunday)	18,396	1,606		2,958	237	4,802
Weymouth Bay (Eastern Cape York)	4,352	9				9
Whitsunday Coast (Mackay Whitsunday)	19,560	711		66	47	824
Wilson Creek, Portland Road coastal creeks (Eastern Cape York)	13,471	375	3	27	215	620

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of Water Quality Improvement Plan catchments.

* Pre-clear riverine wetland statistics are not available in this area. A comprehensive evaluation is currently underway of the effect of identified limitations on the statistical analysis process used to monitor wetland extent change. During this time, selected riverine wetland statistics will be temporarily unavailable as they may be disproportionately impacted. It is expected that this evaluation will be completed in late 2024.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.