Wetlands Milestones

Elise & Terry Byrne with members of BPSC
Wetland Group at River Murray
Catchment Environmental Awards 2003

Activities undertaken to date include;

Removal of flow barrier and installation of flow regulation system.
Wetland Care Management Plan developed in 1999.
Baseline survey data collected.
New box culverts and carp screens installed in 2001.
7.2 tonnes of dead carp removed from Brenda Park Lagoon during a managed drying event in 2002.
Wetland monitoring plan developed and initiated 2002-2003.
River Murray Catchment Environment Award 2003.
TV advertisement: participated in making a RMCWMB 'Save the Murray' commercial.
Conference: initiated prepared an conducted solely by the committee 2003 with keynote speaker 'The Frog Man' Dr. Mike Tyler.
Brochures: personally developed and created.
Accredited wetland management plan developed in August 2004 the first in SA.
SA's First Permanent wetland water licence obtained in early 2005.
17/3/05 Ministerial Launch of the first Permanent Wetland Water Licence by Hon. Karlene Maywald (Member for Chaffey and Minister for The River Murray).
Wetland Champion program identified Elise Byrne to be a representative, this enabled more community awareness of our project and the Save the River Murray story.
SA Great Science and Environment Award for the Murraylands Region November 2005.
Weed control.
Supporting the Lignum and Redgum Adelaide Uni PhD study of Anne Jensen and associated Honors projects.
Hands on activities with a monitoring programme (photo points, tree heath, groundwater & surface water salinity, bird, frog and vegetation survey).
Improve community awareness via programmes e.g. brochures, displays, wetland conference, development of a website.
2006 Bathymetry survey
2006 Investigation of flow path via Penfold Lagoon
2007 Wetland Management Plan Review and Upgrade - ongoing

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