PROJECTS
Title: Wattle Creek Land and Water Implementation Project
Program: National Landcare Program
Description: The aim of the project is to continue to implement priority areas of work nominated by Wattle Creek Land and Water Management Plan and to ensure that the integrity of exisiting onground works is maintained.
Funding: (1996/1997) $7,701; (1997/1998) $9,790; (1998/1999) $6,720; Total Australian Government Funding $24,211
Title: Yerong Creek Catchment Planning Project
Program: National Landcare Program
Description: The key area this project addresses is planning, support and investigations. The objective of this project is to develop a Catchment Project Plan.
Funding: (1997/1998) $3,000
Title: Yerong Creek Gully Erosion Control Project
Program: National Landcare Program
Project Identifier 11500
Description The key issues this project addresses are: sedimentation in rivers and decline in water quality. The project aims to control 3 actively eroding gully erosion sites at the top of the catchment, and create an awareness amongst group members and local farmers of the above issues.
Funding (1997/1998) $19,265
Title: 'Fencing the Creek' - Wattle and Yerong Creek Drought Refuge Project
Program: NRM
Description: This project will enhance water quality by controlling erosion protecting watercourses from stock and providing refuge habitat for wildlife during drought periods. This project will erect 6km of fencing across two project sites 10 km east of Yerong Creek. One project site will stabilise stream banks whilst the other project site will create vegetated drainage lines on hillside slopes by planting 1000 trees.
Funding: (2002/2003) $11,700
Title: Wattle Creek Water Quality and Erosion Control Project
Program: NRM
Description: This project will further on-ground action to address the Wattle Creek Land and Water implementation plan which identifies creek and gully erosion as a key catchment health issue. Wattle Creek is characterised by high velocity water flow an undulating land formation and highly dispersible soils. This project will continue to control substantial stream bank and bed erosion and expand the wildlife corridor linkage being created.
Funding: (2003/2004) $14,496
