What is impacting the Barker Inlet?
Barker Inlet and Port River Estuary Of particular significance are the effects of nutrient rich discharges – sewage effluent and stormwater runoff. Red tides by the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum were first recognised in the Port River area in October 1986. What do the Barker Inlet wetlands do? provide flood protection. provide natural filtering and…