Environment

We undertake a wide range of monitoring programmes to measure and track our environmental performance, and ensure that potential environmental impacts associated with the port’s operations are minimised.

Current monitoring programmes include:

• Quarterly stormwater monitoring at 12 locations at the port, and via a relocatable automatic stormwater sampler
• Six-monthly groundwater monitoring at 20 permanent bores within the port’s limits
• Annual Sediment Sampling and Analysis Programmes (SAPs) are undertaken to define the contaminant status of over 70 parameters in 48 locations in the Brisbane River and Morton Bay prior to the annual maintenance dredging of these locations
• Six-monthly waste audits conducted during summer and winter across all Corporation managed sites to monitor the success of our waste minimisation initiatives
• Annual monitoring of mangrove transplantation trials to assess our permit trial mangrove transplantation project adjacent to the eastern reclamation wall
• Bi-annual monitoring of mangrove ecosystem health, including permanent photographic monitoring and sediment contaminant assessment, of mangrove communities on, and adjacent to, port lands
• Monthly bird counts at high tide roost sites and at the man-made lake at the Port of Brisbane
• Annual feral animal control programmes to manage the risk associated with feral animals in the port’s quarantine area and to minimise potential predation impacts on native fauna
• Twice-yearly weed surveys developed in associated with the Australian Quarantine & Inspection Services to minimise the risk of exotic seeds or pathogens establishing at the port.