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Tully/Murray wetland rehabilitation

Website/Report

Project lead

Partnerships

Queensland Wetlands Program

Girrigun Aboriginal Corporation

Gumbudda Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) and Cardwell Shire Council

Neighbouring landholders

Industries

Other

Activities

On-ground work, Monitoring, Planning, Education extension

Case study type

Queensland Wetlands Program (QWP) management case study

Funding source

Australian Government

Cardwell Shire Council

Environfund

Great Barrier Reef Public Reserves Management Program and Defeat the Weed Menace

Funding amount

(not documented)

In-kind contribution

(not documented)

Start date

(not documented)

End date

(not documented)

Summary

The Murray floodplain is midway between Cairns and Townsville in North Queensland. The Tully and Murray rivers, along with many tributary creeks, lagoons, melaleuca swamp forests, seasonally inundated plains, and palm forests, form a floodplain wetland aggregation. This aggregation is distributed among agricultural land used to produce sugar, bananas and beef.

There were a number of elements to this project, the first being development of a Decision Support System to prioritise wetland management investment areas. Once sites were chosen, on-ground works focused on the Kyambul Lagoon, Warrami Waterhole and Cherrin Creek systems. A hymenache control plan was developed. An Argo all-terrain vehicle was used to spray the hymenachne with herbicide over 50ha of wetlands. A contractor was employed to de-silt the Warrami Waterhole. Eight hectares of strategic fencing was placed along Cherrin Creek to protect the creek from further degradation from cattle. A monitoring program was developed for the rehabilitation works involving two plots for ongoing monitoring.

Benefits

(not documented)

Lesson

(not documented)

Reference ID

Tully/Murray wetland rehabilitation

Last updated: 16 May 2015

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2015) Tully/Murray wetland rehabilitation, WetlandInfo website, accessed 30 August 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/resources/tools/wetland-project/tully-murray-wetland-rehabilitation-776a/

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