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St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) water quality improvement plan catchmentAccess wetland mapping in PDF and KML format by selecting the desired 100K map tile below or download the data via the Queensland Government Information Service. The below map is for visual representation purposes only. For more detailed mapping, please download the boundary KML. Drag this bar to relocate the map on your screen Open WetlandMaps interactive map server
Catchment stories
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| System | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 18.6 | 100.0% | 10.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 0.3 | 1.5% | 0.1% |
| Estuarine | 14.6 | 78.2% | 7.9% |
| Lacustrine | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Palustrine | 0.3 | 1.6% | 0.2% |
| Riverine | 3.5 | 18.7% | 1.9% |
| Habitat | Area (km²) | % wetlands area | % total area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 18.6 | 100.0% | 10.0% |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 13.1 | 70.5% | 7.1% |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 1.4 | 7.7% | 0.8% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.3 | 1.6% | 0.2% |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 0.3 | 1.5% | 0.1% |
| Riverine | 3.5 | 18.7% | 1.9% |
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.
Wetland extent changes
| System | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
2017/pre-clear percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 18.6 | 18.6 | 18.6 | 18.7 | 18.7 | * 75.6% |
| Artificial and highly modified | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | n/a |
| Estuarine | 14.6 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 14.6 | 98.8% |
| Lacustrine | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | n/a |
| Palustrine | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 13.4% |
| Riverine | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 41.0% |
* Total 2017/pre-clear percentage excludes artificial and highly modified
View 2017 wetland system extents for all water quality improvement plan catchments
View 2013 wetland system extents for all water quality improvement plan catchments
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View 2001 wetland system extents for all water quality improvement plan catchments
| Habitat | 2017 area (km²) |
2013 area (km²) |
2009 area (km²) |
2005 area (km²) |
2001 area (km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 18.6 | 18.6 | 18.6 | 18.7 | 18.7 |
| Estuarine - mangroves and related tree communities | 13.1 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 13.1 | 13.1 |
| Estuarine - salt flats and saltmarshes | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal saline swamp | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass sedge and herb swamp | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree swamp—Melaleuca spp. and Eucalypus spp. | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Artificial and highly modified wetlands (dams, ring tanks, irrigation channels) | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Riverine | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
View 2017 wetland habitat area for all water quality improvement plan catchments
View 2013 wetland habitat area for all water quality improvement plan catchments
View 2009 wetland habitat area for all water quality improvement plan catchments
View 2005 wetland habitat area for all water quality improvement plan catchments
View 2001 wetland habitat area for all water quality improvement plan catchments
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.
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- Building resilience in the Burdekin grazing industry
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- Burdekin Shire Council - Aquatic Weed Control
- Initiation of a Lower Burdekin Water Quality and Salinity Management Program
- Landscape Resilience in the important sugar production area of the Lower Burdekin Delta
- MW QNRM 01
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) - RC - SH 3 (DR5011)
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) - RC - SH 5 (DR5013)
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) - RC - SH 6 (DR5024)
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) - RC - SH 7 (DR5010)
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery Arrangements (NDRRA) - RC - SH10 (DR5025)
- NQ Dry Tropics Community Landcare Grants (2016–17)
- Systems repair in the Lower Burdekin
- Virtual Bus Tour: Conjunctive use dewatering bore to address a rising groundwater problem
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Water quality improvement plan catchments
EPP (Water) scheduled environmental values and water quality objectives
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Pioneer River and Plane Creek Basins; Proserpine River, Whitsunday Island and O'Connell River Basins (WQ1222)
- SD2381S (SD)
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Pioneer River and Plane Creek Basins (WQ1251)
- HEV2313 (HEV)
- HEV2341 (HEV)
- HEV2343 (HEV)
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Proserpine River, Whitsunday Island and O'Connell River Basins (WQ1221)
- HEV2311 (HEV)
- HEV2312 (HEV)
- HEV2313 (HEV)
- SD2381 (SD)
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Wildlife
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Kingdom
Class
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Native | Introduced | Wetland indicator species |
Rare or threatened species |
All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOTAL | 896 | 53 | 121 | 37 | 949 |
| Animals | 373 | 7 | 94 | 25 | 380 |
| Mammals | 32 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 35 |
| Birds | 240 | 1 | 53 | 12 | 241 |
| Reptiles | 48 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 48 |
| Amphibians | 21 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| Ray-finned fishes | 22 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 24 |
| Insects | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Fungi | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Plants | 507 | 46 | 27 | 12 | 553 |
Note: Wildlife statistics are based on information that has been submitted to the DES WildNet database and converted to a 10km² grid. The grid information has been intersected with the mapping polygons to determine the species lists. Click here to view the species grid metadata.
Information from WildNet can also be accessed via Wildlife Online and WetlandMaps.
Rare or threatened includes species listed as extinct, extinct in the wild, critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or conservation dependent under either the Nature Conservation Act or Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
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This page should be cited as:
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland (2013) St Helens Creek (Mackay Whitsunday) water quality improvement plan catchment — facts and maps, WetlandInfo website, accessed 1 February 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/wqip-st-helens-creek-mackay-whitsunday/
— Department of Environment and Science