seq catchments catching up newsletter brisbane and moreton region january 2012
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Happy new year to all and heres looking forward to a wonderfuland productive year ahead!Building Resilience afer the Pine Rivers Flood
Its hard to believe that a year has passed since the devastang oods of 2011.
However, its been a very busy year for Pine Rivers Catchment Associaon (PRCA), who
have been hard at work with their Building resilience aer the Pine Rivers ood project.
The project aims to build long-term management and monitoring of the catchment,
increasing resilience through adapve learning and implementaon techniques. The
project inially focussed on awareness raising, educaon and future planning.
In September 2011, PRCA moved into the on-ground phase, restoring parts of
Laceys Creek, Baxters Creek and the North Pine River that had been damaged in the 2011
oods. On-ground works have taken place at twenty three properes, restoring almost
three kilometres of bed and banks, with over 2500 plants going into the ground.
Part of this huge restoraon eort was achieved through the help of the Dayboro
community with over twenty residents turning out to parcipate in a Community Planng
Day. With funding provided by Energex, the Community Planng Day was held in October
2011 and involved planng two sides of the North Pine River on Laceys Creek Road. The
majority of the planng was held on the McKavanaugh property, which had been
signicantly damaged in the 2011 ood event. Fences and livestock had been swept away
by ood waters as well as a signicant amount of land lost through erosion. In the days
prior to the Community Planng Day, Ian Smith from PRCA guided the re-proling of both
the North Pine River frontage and Baxters Creek on the McKavanaugh property, ensuring
that ponds and ries were reinstated so that bed and banks regained their natural
funcons.
In addion to the planng day, a Naonal Green Jobs Corps team under the
tutelage of Janet Mangan from PRCA had been hard at work over several weeks. They
cleaned out ood debris and planted out a long secon of the North Pine River below the
North Pine Dam, an area which was also signicantly damaged by the 2011 ood event.
Riverine Protecon PermitsIf you wish to remove vegetaon, excavate or place ll within a watercourse, lake
or spring, you may need to comply with the Water Act 2000 (QLD) and you may need a
Riverine Protecon Permit.Informaon on your rights and obligaons under this
legislaon can be found at the Department of Environment & Resource Management:
www.derm.ld.gov.au/water/management/rpp.html
In the Brisbane and Moreton regionJanuary 2012
The Building Resilience afer the Pine Rivers Floodproject has been made possible
through the generous support of SEQ Catchments, Energex and seqWater and will conn-
ue over the next few months.
For further informaon please contact Pine Rivers Catchment Associaon on 07 3325
1577 or Louise Orr, SEQ Catchments on 0439 024 400.
Ian Smith & Janet Mangan PRCA at the
North Pine River Revegetaon site
RevegetaonNorth Pine River, Whiteside
Community Planng Day North Pine River, Dayboro
Baxters Creek Dayboro aer re-proling & reshaping
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Tweed Shire Sustainable Agriculture StrategyCATCHMENT GROUPS
CORNERBulimba Creek Catchment Coordinang Commiee
(B4C)
07 3420 4800
www.bulimbacreek.org.au
Northern Catchments Network07 3407 0865
www.northerncatchmentsnetwork.org.au
Cubberla-Wion Catchments Network
07 3878 4581
0407 583 441
www.cubberlawion.org
Kedron Brook Catchment Network (Inc.)
www.kedronbrook.org.au
Bayside Creeks Catchment Group
07 3893 2332
0419 726 543
www.baysidecreeks.org.au
Moggill Creek Catchment Group
07 3374 4240
www.moggillcreek.org
Norman Creek Catchment Coordinang Commiee
(N4C)
07 3324 8307
www.n4c.org.au
Oxley Creek Catchment Associaon (OCCA)
07 3278 2899
www.oxleycreekcatchment.org.au
Pine Rivers Catchment Associaon (PRCA)
07 3325 1577
www.prca.org.au
Pullen Pullen Catchments Group
www.pullenpullencatchment.org.au
Save Our Waterways Now (SOWN)
0423 763 361
www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au
Wolston and Centenary Catchments (WaCC)
07 3178 9816
www.wacc.org.au
Redclie Environmental Forum
www.redenviroforum.org.au
Pumicestone Region
Catchment Coordinaon Associaon (PRCCA)
07 3888 8209
www.prcca.caloundra.qld.gov.au
Bribie Island Environmental Protecon Associaon
(BIEPA)
07 3410 0757
0400 627 477
www.biepa.org
Mt Nebo and Mt Glorious Envi-
ronmental Protecon Associaon
(MEPA)
07 3289 0093
www.gloriousnebo.org.au
Louise OrrSEQ Catchments
Community Partnerships Manager | Brisbane and Moreton region0439 024 [email protected]
www.seqcatchments.com.au
Climate change, rising food prices and theuse of food crops as an alternave fuel source
have been recognised as three of the main chal-
lenges to food security and nutrion through-
out the world. In addion to these challenges,
local governments across eastern Australia
must also deal with populaon growth and
compeng land uses, such as farming, urbanand acreage development.
Tweed Shire Council is aempng to
address such issues through developing and
implemenng a Sustainable Agriculture Strate-
gy. One of the rst local governments in Aus-
tralia to aempt such a strategy, Tweed Shire
looked to Brisbane based consultancy Think
Food, part of the Food Connect Foundaon
founded by Robert Pekin, to assist them.
Working in partnership with John
Mongard Landscape Architects and drawing on
their own considerable knowledge of regional
farming and food systems, Think Food broad-
ened the strategy development process to look
not only at regional producon, but also region-
al distribuon and consumpon, parcularly
the retail markets available in nearby South
East Queensland.
The Project team wanted the strategy
to look at current and future barriers to sustain-
able agriculture in the region, and nd ways to
encourage farming that was not only ecological-
ly sound, but that would support local farmers
and growers, connect them with local business-es and residents and thereby smulate local
economies and communies. To achieve this
vision, Think Food and John Mongard idened
four main aims for the Strategy. It had to:
Inuence Council policy;
Empower and engage farmers and the
community;
Be developed through an open process;
Be an iterave document
To accomplish this an innovave and
open engagement process previously devel-oped by John Mongard was adopted: Set Up
Shop. For two days, an empty oce in the main
street of Murwillumbah was opened and every-
one invited to come in and give their ideas and
thoughts on how sustainable food and farming
in the Tweed could work.
Farmers, shopkeepers, residents, poli-
cians, businessmen, local industry representa-
ves, government representaves: everyone
had their say. Their ideas were recorded on
butchers paper and displayed around the walls,
prompng plenty of creave thought.
The ideas, thoughts and comments
from the Set Up Shop are now being turned
into a praccal dra Strategy, with acons for
both Council and the wider community to un-
dertake. Comments are being sought on this
dra from Catchment Management Authories,
State Government, and Tweed Shire Council.
The Tweed Sustainable Agricultural
Strategy is an innovave and ambious step
forward, one that aims to shape regional food
producon and consumpon into the future,
smulate regional community and economy
and transion regional agriculture into a new
phase.
The Tweed Shire Sustainable Agriculture Strat-
egy is expected to be released in the rst half
of 2012.
For more informaon please contact Nick Rose
at [email protected] on
0414 497 819.
When someone comes into the room, they
immediately start to see what everyone else
is saying. So it opens them up and takes
them out of what they have to come to talkabout and instead they begin to consider
other ideas, other perspecves, and think
more deeply about the issues.Robert
Pekin
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