SACTCG Previous Programs
About the Projects
The below on-ground works were implemented by the Southern ACT Catchment Group in accordance with our sub-catchment plans. For more information about these or any other program please contact the SACTCG Coordinator.
GreenGROW: Assisting the community buffer, enhance and link vegetation communities
Funding Body: Envirofund - Australian Government
Year: 2002
Project Description: The GreenGROW project aimed to assist community groups to enhance existing vegetation communities, buffer small remnants and to link them to existing vegetation stands in the catchment. The project established a cooperative working link with Greening Australia and built upon the Vegetation Investment Project. This project engaged community volunteers to plant over 5,000 shrubs and 5,000 trees throughout area within the Southern ACT Catchment.
WaterPOINT: Implement a water monitoring strategy in the Southern ACT
Funding Body: Envirofund - Australian Government
Year: 2002
Project Description: The WaterPOINT project was to establish key water monitoring sites within the Southern ACT Catchment Area and develop a water quality information database. After the 2003 Canberra bushfires the project was restructured to establish a network of community monitoring groups that would monitor the ecological affects of the bushfires on our local waterways and catchments. The project was renamed C.A.M.P.F.I.R.E (Community Assessment Monitoring Program for Fire Impacted River Ecology). The project is a continuing success with the year 3 & 4 report to be released soon.
WeedAWAY: A strategic weed reduction program in Southern ACT
Funding Body: Envirofund - Australian Government
Year: 2002
Project Description: The WeedAWAY project aimed to extend and enhance current weed reduction programs targeting both woody weeds and annual species in the Canberra Nature Parks, NSW Public Land (Royalla Estate), Tidbinbilla and Gigerline Nature Reserves and Namadgi National Park. The primary objective of the project was to engage community groups in weed management strategies to help improve the over biodiversity of the region.
Restoration of Yarralumla Creek - Stage 4
Funding Body: Community Partnership Program - ACT Government
Year: 2002
Project Description: The lower Yarralumla Creek catchment area had been subjected to extreme alteration through urbanisation of the surrounding area. This project worked to stabilise and revegetate the western bank of the lower Yarralumla Creek from the footbridge using rock armouring techniques. Stabilisation of the creek banks helped to reduce turbidity and sediment load into the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee Rivers.
