The 2025 Gladstone Harbour Report Card is the eleventh annual Report Card released by the Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership (GHHP) and provides a holistic assessment of the harbour's Environmental, Economic, Social and Cultural health.
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The 2025 Gladstone Harbour Report Card presents monitoring data collected from July 2024 to June 2025. It includes updated results for all Environmental indicators except Mangroves, and the Economic Performance and Economic Stimulus indicators. The Social and Cultural components were not assessed this year, and Indigenous Cultural Heritage has been redeveloped as Traditional Owner Values as a standalone section of the Report Card.
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Overall, the Gladstone Harbour Report Card 2023 grade results were: Environmental health of Gladstone Harbour, Good (B); Cultural health of Gladstone Harbour, Good (B); Social health of Gladstone Harbour, Good (B); and the Economic health of Gladstone Harbour, Good (B).
ENVIRONMENTAL
RESULTS
unchanged
high
confidence
SOCIAL
RESULTS
uses previous results
medium confidence
CULTURAL
RESULTS
uses previous results
medium confidence
ECONOMIC
RESULTS
unchanged
high
confidence
GRADING
SYSTEM
Very good (0.85-1.00)
Good (0.65-0.84)
Satisfactory (0.5-0.64)
Poor
(0.25-0.49)
Very Poor
(0.00-0.24)
No data available
ENVIRONMENTAL GRADES
BY ZONE
Select a zone score below to learn more about the results for each zone.
LITTER AND MARINE DEBRIS
The Australian Marine Debris Initiative measures the impact of litter on environments by comparing the total litter collected against a 10-year historic baseline. The litter data included in this year's report was collected between July 2023 and June 2024 by volunteers participating in the Tangaroa Blue Foundation's clean-up projects.
Almost all sites had lower average total rubbish compared to the baseline
Turtle Street Beach on Curtis Island and Gatcombe Heads on Facing Island are under very high litter pressure
Total number of items collected at all cleanups = 39,568, over 75 clean-up events
Volunteers worked a total of 2698.5 hours at clean-up events during the year
URBAN WATER
STEWARDSHIP FRAMEWORK
In 2025, Gladstone Regional Council’s urban water management activities were assessed based on the Queensland Government’s Urban Water Stewardship Framework process across three primary groups:
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Activities from Developing Urban areas that may contribute to diffuse pollution received a Good (B) grade.
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Activities from Established Urban areas that may contribute to diffuse pollution were graded Satisfactory (C).
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Activities that may contribute to Point Source pollution (sewage treatment and sewer network management activities) were also graded Satisfactory (C).
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Gladstone Regional Council’s overall urban water management practices were graded Satisfactory (C) – meaning that the levels of practice are either in line with current minimum standards (C) or current best practice performance (B). Notable improvements have been achieved in the Developing Urban area since the last assessment in 2023.
