Darwin Harbour report card 2018

Zone 8: Buffalo Creek

2018 report card overview

Water quality in Buffalo Creek was very poor.

Three out of the four indicators did not comply with Water Quality Objectives.

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek grade wheel

About Buffalo Creek

Buffalo Creek is a small tidal creek in the Shoal Bay receives discharge from the Leanyer-Sanderson wastewater treatment plant.

The creek is poorly flushed and discharge is not readily dispersed, causing a build-up of nutrients and excessive algal growth.

A small area of the newly established suburb of Muirhead also drains towards Buffalo Creek delivering urban stormwater during the wet season.

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Long-term trend

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek trends

Data summary

The distribution of the data for all parameters is shown here as box and whisker plots.

For report card grades the median of the data (solid line in the box) is compared to the Water Quality Objective (dotted line) for each parameter.

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek turbidity
Dissolved oxygen indicator – Oxygen saturation parameterZone 8 Buffalo Creek dissolved oxygen
Algae indicator – Chlorophyll-a concentration parameterZone 8 Buffalo Creek chlorophyll-a
Nutrients indicator – Nitro oxide, ammonia and soluble phosphorus concentrations parameterZone 8 Buffalo Creek phosphorusZone 8 Buffalo Creek ammoniaZone 8 Buffalo Creek nitrogen oxide

Supplementary parameters

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek salinity

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek temperature

Zone 8 Buffalo Creek pH levels


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