Pesticide Reporting Portal

This portal displays pesticide concentrations for water samples collected by Water Quality and Investigations

Please use the interactive map below to access pesticide monitoring data at sites that matter to you, wherever you are in Queensland.

For best results ensure your browser window is maximised and set to 100% zoom and use a landscape orientation when using mobile devices.

• The Pesticide Reporting Portal has a new look and user experience. The PRP now uses an R ShinyApp to navigate to sites and display pesticide data
• The Fact Sheet, previously named Interpreting Guideline Exceedances has been updated and renamed Understanding the Data
• Greater flexibility to visualise chemicals that you are interested in on the same page, toggle between active and historical sites and to export graphs as png files
• The number of pesticides has increased from 24 to 30, and now includes carbendazim, chlorothalonil, 4-hydroxychlorothalonil, dimethoate, halosulfuron-methyl and methoxyfenozide
• The number of sites where pesticides are monitored has increased, and now includes new sites in Cape York (Laura River), Wet Tropics (Saltwater Creek, Emerald Creek, Fig Tree Creek, Catherina Creek), Mackay Whitsunday (multiple sites in the Sandy Creek catchment from the Sandy Creek projects), South East Queensland (Six Mile Creek, Lagoon Creek)
• Water Level data is not available at a number of sites. A future release of the product will work towards making more water level data available

The Water Quality and Investigations team is responsible for the delivery of two key water quality monitoring programs:  the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Loads Monitoring Program  and the South East Queensland Catchment Loads Monitoring Program. Both programs support the monitoring and reporting roles of the Department as part of the  Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan  and  South East Queensland Natural Resource Management Plan 2009-2031. 

Further to these programs, the team is actively involved in environmental investigations, assessments and analyses relating to pollution events, ecotoxicology, water quality, and aquatic ecosystem health.

The  Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation  supports the transparent and responsive provision of data via an open data policy. The Pesticide Reporting Portal makes pesticide monitoring data collected across the eastern coast of Queensland accessible to all government and non-government stakeholders and the general public. Remote-telemetered water level data provide context, allowing landholders and managers to investigate the influence of overland flow on pesticide loss under different management scenarios. The Pesticide Reporting Portal requires no specialised GIS software or licences.

The following link will open a new browser window explaining how to interpret the pesticide and water level graphs, including what the guidelines are and what an exceedance of a guideline means.

For more information about the Great Barrier Reef and South East Queensland Catchment Loads Monitoring Programs contact  wqi@qld.gov.au 

While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this information, the Department of Environment, Science and Innovation makes no representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs that might be incurred as a result of the information being inaccurate or incomplete in any way and for any reason.

Unless otherwise noted, all copyright material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence ( CC BY 4.0 ).

The Queensland Government requests attribution in the following manner:

Water Quality & Investigations, 2020, Catchment Loads Monitoring Program Pesticide Reporting Portal, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane, Australia.

Water Quality and Investigations acknowledges all team members that contributed to development of the Pesticide Reporting Portal.

The authors wish to thank all stakeholders who assisted in the collection of water samples, including  Queensland Parks and Wildlife  staff,  Laura Rangers  and South Cape York Catchments Inc., Mulgrave Landcare and Catchment Group Inc., Johnstone River Catchment Management Association, Tully Sugar Pty Ltd, AquaSea Enterprises, Burdekin Bowen Integrated Floodplain Management Advisory Committee Inc., Reef Catchments, Capricornia Catchments Inc., Fitzroy River Water, Burnett Catchment Care Association, Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee, Lana Polglase, Christina Howley, Peter Bradley, Sylvia Conway, Beau Nash, Gulf Savannah NRM, Colt Pitt, Aaron Davis, Chris Dench, Ray Byrd, Robbie Price, Tania Brown, Noel and Penny Bartley, Kevin Brignull, David Erfurth, Tony Wolfe, Peter and Sally Griffiths, Mark Orreal, Dianne Coulter and Shane Jackson and Tracey Muller. Thanks also go to the Queensland Government catchment modellers and to all members, partners and stakeholders of the  Reef 2050 WQIP  and the  Paddock to Reef program .

The program would like to acknowledge the assistance and advice provided by the  Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services . The program is grateful to the Queensland Government hydrographers who were responsible for the installation and maintenance of all  Queensland Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water (DRDMW)  gauging stations and associated infrastructure and for the collection and validation of flow data. The contribution of industry and other Queensland Government departments in providing advice regarding the analysis and interpretation of results is greatly appreciated.

The land use layer is provided by the  Queensland Land Use Mapping Program  ( Qspatial ) with land use types defined by the Australian Land Use and Management Classification ( V.8 ). 

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