Cleveland Bay Maintenance Dredging Water Quality Monitoring Program

Collection of water quality data (turbidity, underwater PAR (light), salinity, temperature and depth) at five sites around Cleveland Bay off Townsville to monitor water quality in conjunction with Maintenance Dredging conducted by the Port of Townsville Limited.Equipment was deployed from September 2014 with monthly servicing and download of the data, water samples were also taken each month and analysed for TSS.The work was completed under a contract with the Port of Townsville Limited.
Sampling equipment was located at five 'sensitive receptor' sites within Cleveland Bay (seagrass sites: western Cleveland Bay and Virago Shoals (off Palarenda), Coral Sites: Florence Bay, Geoffrey Bay and Picnic Bay, Magnetic Island) to monitor water quality in conjunction with the operation of maintenance dredging by the Port of Townsville Limited.
Data collected every 10 minutes and downloaded on monthly sampling trips.

本数据集涵盖汤斯维尔近海克利夫兰湾周边5个监测点位的水质数据，监测参数包括浊度、水下光合有效辐射（PAR, Photosynthetically Active Radiation）、盐度、温度及水深。本数据集用于配合汤斯维尔港有限公司开展的维护疏浚工程实施水质监测。监测设备于2014年9月投入部署，每月开展设备维护并下载采集数据；同时每月采集水样并针对总悬浮固体（TSS, Total Suspended Solids）开展实验室分析。本项目由汤斯维尔港有限公司签订合同委托实施。
采样设备布设于克利夫兰湾内的5个“敏感受体”点位：海草生境点位包括克利夫兰湾西部及维拉戈浅滩（帕伦达外海区域）；珊瑚生境点位包括磁岛的佛罗伦斯湾、杰弗里湾及野餐湾，用于配合汤斯维尔港有限公司的维护疏浚作业开展水质监测。
数据每10分钟采集一次，于每月采样航次中完成下载。