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Background quality of the coastal marine waters of the North West Shelf, Western Australia.

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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A sediment quality survey was undertaken at six locations in the marine waters off the Pilbara coast to determine concentrations of a range of selected metal and organic chemicals under natural background conditions. The suite of chemicals measured included arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, vanadium, zinc, butyltin compounds, total petroleum hydrocarbons, BTEX chemicals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides and PCBs. The work was undertaken to provide a baseline for evaluating anthropogenic changes or trends in sediment quality around regional centers of development (eg. Ports) and to ascertain the applicability the nationally recommended sediment quality guidelines from the Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality (ANZECC & ARMCANZ, 2000) to the region.

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Title Background quality of the coastal marine waters of the North West Shelf, Western Australia.
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e2ee5b63-482d-4675-ac7b-d54990e67ebe
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Kevin.Mcalpine@epa.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 14/06/2005 - 23/06/2005
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        113.0,
        -24.5
      ],
      [
        117.5,
        -24.5
      ],
      [
        117.5,
        -20.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -20.0
      ],
      [
        113.0,
        -24.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Background quality of the coastal marine waters of the North West Shelf, Western Australia.". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/background-quality-of-the-coastal-marine-waters-of-the-north-west-shelf-western-australia