Elwood Main Drain Project
We’re building a second drain to carry flood water from Melbourne’s southeast to the Port Philip Bay at Elwood.
We’re building a second drain to carry flood water from Melbourne’s southeast to the Port Philip Bay at Elwood.
The Two Great Ramsar Wetlands project is a five-year project (2018-23) led by Melbourne Water that aims to bring key agencies, land managers and community groups together to reduce the threats to the Port Phillip and Western Port Ramsar sites at Port Phillip Bay (western shoreline) and Western Port.
Living Links is a large scale, long-term urban nature program working in partnership to create a web of green spaces across Melbourne’s south-east.
Reel Big Fish – Western Port is a three-year project that aims to improve and increase the extent of suitable habitat for recreational fish species in Western Port while also increasing knowledge and building capacity with the recreational fishing community.
Grow West is a long-term, collaborative environmental program working to rejuvenate degraded landscapes in the Upper Werribee Catchment and create vegetation connections between the YouYangs Regional Park, Brisbane Ranges National Park, Werribee Gorge State Park and Lerderderg State Park.
The Waterways of the West – Traditional Owner Engagement Project links community environmental groups based in the Maribyrnong and Werribee catchments with the cultural knowledge and land management expertise of Traditional Owners.
We're upgrading the Waverley Road retarding basin spillway, located next to Scotchmans Creek Trail in Mount Waverley, to ensure a safe drainage system and to reduce the risk of flooding to surrounding homes.
We’re undertaking a ten-year program to completely eradicate Spartina, an introduced grass species, from Western Port by 2025.
We completed upgrades to the Essex Street Main Drain - one of Melbourne Water's significant drains in the South Yarra and Prahran catchment.
Water is essential to our way of life. That’s why we’re transforming part of the D1 Drain in Werribee into a natural waterway where native wildlife can thrive and communities can come together.