The view from Coordinator’s desk: Welcome to another Southern ACT Waterwatch Catchment Update. Last Autumn saw above average rain work its wonders on our waterways. As always there were were mixed blessings, with many waterways bearing the brunt of chronic catchment health issues such as high phosphorus diets, either from …
The view from Coordinator’s desk: Hi, Welcome to the first Southern ACT Waterwatch Catchment Update for 2024. Just in time for mid summer, 3 of our rivers, the Murrumbidgee, Cotter and Paddy’s were closed by the ACT Government to ‘primary contact’ (aka swimming) at various popular swimming spots due to …
From the Coordinators Desk Hi, Welcome to Autumn team. We have 2 outings in one week to you socially engaged this month. On Wednesday 20th SACTCG is inviting you to our Quarterly Meeting. It will be on World Frog Day, so who better than AnkeMaria Hoefer to give a very …
The view from Coordinator’s desk Here’s the belated update for last Spring. As usual it will be a bit bug-centric. October was our last month with below average rainfall and September was extremely dry. The reduced runoff since autumn was appreciated by critters in most of our waterways. Almost all …
The view from Coordinator’s desk The wet years of La Nina oficially came to an end in March. Below are the monthly rainfall figures for last winter in case you’re in doubt. Some good news is the slower flows lend themselves to clearer rivers and the Waterwatch reports reflected this …
The view from Coordinator’s desk We launched the 2022 Catchment Health Indicators Program report on World Water day in March. If you have not had time to look at it yet head to this link . Many good folk joined me to see what the year would bring for little …
On December 14th 2022 Southern ACT catchment group Celebrated its 20th Birthday. Over 75 hardworking volunteers, convenors, committee members and supporters throughout the Southern ACT Catchment attended the event at Section 57 in the Mawson Club. Throughout the evening speeches were made recognising the many efforts of our …
On Sunday 4th December Southern ACT Catchment Group in collaboration with Landcare ACT’s Wellbeing through Nature program wrapped up a series of dam restoration plantings spread across seven dams and five properties in total. The focus of these events was to demonstrate the mutual benefits of caring for our environment, …
On Saturday (26th of November), Southern ACT Catchment Group, with assistance from the ACT Government under the 2021-2022 ACT Environment Grant Program, conducted the first of 4 weeds workshops to assist Landcarers in our member groups identify and tackle weeds in their patch. Simon Lang from Willow and Environmental Management …
Southern ACT Catchment group, along with Rivers of Carbon, Landcare ACT’s Wellbeing Program and local landholders, have been working all through August and September with dam and river restoration plantings. These projects were supported by ACT NRM with funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund. We would like to …
