Gum tree overhangs Stony Creek in a natural-looking environment at Yarraville

Stony Creek Rehabilitation Plan: report card launch

  • 10:30am - 2:30pm
  • Yarraville Guide Hall
    Clare St
    Yarraville VIC
    Australia

  • Free
06/04/2023 10:30am 06/04/2023 2:30pm Australia/Melbourne Stony Creek Rehabilitation Plan: report card launch Yarraville Guide Hall Clare St Yarraville VIC Melbourne Water [email protected]

Event details

Join us to celebrate the launch of the Stony Creek Rehabilitation Plan 2021-22 report card.

The event will be a chance to hear from researchers and agency partners, share the highlights from the report card and get involved caring for our local waterway.

Melbourne Water has been working together with the community, research partners and partner agencies towards the recovery and rehabilitation of Stony Creek. It’s time to share our achievements and challenges to protect and restore creek.

Presenters

Hear from our presenters:

  • Dr Kathryn Hassell – Aquatic Pollution Prevention Partnership (A3P), RMIT University
    What’s in our water? An investigation of water quality in Stony Creek
  • Miao Wang – BoSL team, Monash University
    Discovering the illegal discharge in Stony Creek via innovative sensing devices
  • Monica Tewman - Aquatic Pollution Prevention Partnership (A3P), RMIT University
    What’s littering Stony Creek?

Schedule

Time Activity
10.30am Bunurong Welcome to Country and Smoking ceremony
11.00am Presentations and meet the researcher
12.30pm Stony Creek Rehabilitation Plan: report card 2021-22 update
  Lunch
1.30pm

Activities in the park:

  • Walk and talk discovery trail
  • Frog pond visit
  • How raingardens work
  • Waterwatch 
  • Community planting