THE GLADSTONE HEALTHY HARBOUR PARTNERSHIP (GHHP) IS PROUD TO RELEASE THE
2021 Gladstone Harbour Report Card
The Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership (GHHP) presents its seventh annual report card to the community and stakeholders. The 2021 Gladstone Harbour Report Card contains the results calculated using 33 indicators derived from 107 different measures within the four components of harbour health: Environment, Economic, Social, and Cultural.
Monitoring since 2014 has shown that some indicators are stable from year to year. Because of this stability, some assessments will now be done every third or fifth year. For the 2021 Report Card, Social, Cultural, Economic and Mangroves were not assessed. For these indicators, the 2019 results, and in the case of Cultural Heritage, the 2018 results have been carried over to 2021.
Overall, the Gladstone Harbour Report Card 2021 grade results were: Environmental health of Gladstone Harbour, good (B); Cultural health of Gladstone Harbour, satisfactory (C); Social health of Gladstone Harbour, good (B); and the Economic health of Gladstone Harbour, good (B).
2021 the second consecutive year that the Environmental component grade was good (B), but it is also the second time since monitoring and reporting began that the water quality grade was very good (A).