{"id":350,"date":"2019-04-01T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2019\/04\/01\/water-quality-monitoring-for-dredging-project\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:22:13","slug":"water-quality-monitoring-for-dredging-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/australasia-greenport\/water-quality-monitoring-for-dredging-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Water quality monitoring for dredging project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work at the port, which primarily exports metallurgical coal, will be undertaken by specialist vessel the <em>TSHD Brisbane<\/em>, on behalf of North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) and the port\u2019s terminal operators. A real-time water quality dashboard is now available on NQBP\u2019s website to enable monitoring during the project, expected to take around 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>NQBP chief executive officer Nicolas Fertin said: \u201cWith three priority ports in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, respect for the environment is critical to everything we do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA range of environmental controls have been put in place to minimise potential impacts on the marine environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the maintenance dredging works, there will be real-time, publicly available monitoring of water quality to detect any potential impacts and allow an immediate response to any unpredicted changes to water quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relocating sediment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Fertin said the maintenance dredging involves relocating sediment \u2013 natural material made up of sands, silt and clay &#8211; that has travelled along the coast and accumulated in shipping navigational areas.<\/p>\n<p>The sediment will be relocated in the sea, 6km away from shipping operations. Relocated material will not be placed on any coral reefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-time monitoring of water quality will be used to help protect the environment during essential maintenance dredging at the Port of Hay Point in Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}