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Sat 14 Jun 08 06:53pm

Guanaba Creek Project

New Project - Community Water Grant $48,000The area defined as Benowa St reserve wetlands, along Guanaba Creek has received a grant for restoration to be managed by TM Landcare. This grant was applied for by Phil Harrison of Conservation Volunteers Australia who is director of corporate and government affairs.
On Saturday, June 14th over 30 interested residents and volunteers expressed interest in the project which earlier gained the permission of the local council. The meeting attended by acting president, Cornelia Meesters, Phil Harrison, and CVA regional manager Don Gibson discussed the project. Funding is limited to subcontracted labour only and extra funding will be needed for the supply of plants and other requirements.
The project is another step in the Corridors Regeneration Project.
For more information - please contact Cornelia Meesters at 5545 3675
More about the project:

Tamborine Mountain Landcare and their project partner Conservation Volunteers Australia have been successful in securing funding support from the Commonwealth Government’s Community Water Grants Program to implement the Guanaba Creek Corridor Regeneration Project. This project will seek to involve and support the community in improving the edges of Guanaba Creek – with a specific objective being to improve water quality in the Creek by preventing erosion and the spreading of exotic weed species.

The edges of the Guanaba Creek in this location are heavily degraded. By giving support to the edges, erosion will be stopped thus improving the water quality. The project is part of the Tamborine Mountain Landcare ‘Corridors Regeneration’ project and the Green Domain project which was launched by Tamborine Mountain Landcare in July 2007 with the intention of engaging and supporting private landholders.

Initial discussions have focused on the potential to rehabilitate the wetland on Benowa Street Road Reserve - that’s the bit of Benowa Street that has never been made but which would otherwise join Wilson Road. The land is owned by Council and is supposed to be a road, but they are happy for it to be re-habilitated. The on-site meeting will be the starting point for the project and will be followed by a flora and fauna survey to establish baseline conditions. (This might be a night time frog survey).

All stakeholders were invited to this site meeting at the Reserve on Saturday 14th of June to discuss this specific activity and also to talk to all interested landholders and residents in the catchment between Wilson and Prospect Streets to ask if interested parties would like to be involved either at this site or potentially anywhere else along the creek. We are also looking at involving students from St Bernard’s State School, local churches and anybody else who’d like to lend a hand to improving the quality of the Creek.

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