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WaterStories
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2008
The following movie files are a collection of stories from members of our community about their experiences around Melbourne's rivers and creeks.
These people live or work along rivers and creeks including the Werribee, Bass, Little and Main Rivers, and the Jacksons, Deep, Toolern and Chinamans Creeks.
Melbourne Water works together with private landholders, community groups, councils and businesses to collect stories of experiences with local rivers and creeks. The stories help create stronger connections with our rivers and creeks and support ongoing waterway improvement by providing Melbourne Water with significant and beneficial feedback.
By watching the stories of those who are actively involved in caring for their local river or creek, individuals can also gain insight into how they might be involved and/or learn more about what they can do to benefit their own local river or creek.
These people live or work along rivers and creeks including the Werribee, Bass, Little and Main Rivers, and the Jacksons, Deep, Toolern and Chinamans Creeks.
Melbourne Water works together with private landholders, community groups, councils and businesses to collect stories of experiences with local rivers and creeks. The stories help create stronger connections with our rivers and creeks and support ongoing waterway improvement by providing Melbourne Water with significant and beneficial feedback.
By watching the stories of those who are actively involved in caring for their local river or creek, individuals can also gain insight into how they might be involved and/or learn more about what they can do to benefit their own local river or creek.
The Yarra River Story - Dean Stewart
Dean Stewart, education manager at Koorie Heritage Trust tells the story of the Yarra.
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Walking Birrarung with Dean Stewart
มุมมอง 3.7K16 ปีที่แล้ว
Dean Stewart, education manager at the Koorie Heritage Trust, leads walking tours along the Yarra River in Melbourne. Walking Birrarung - the river of mists - takes participants on a cultural and historical journey of Melbourne. Connecting everyone regardless of age and background to the spirit of place.
Moragh Mackay and Jodie Gager - Bass Coast Landcare Network
มุมมอง 59516 ปีที่แล้ว
Moragh MacKay and Jodie Gager are Landcare Facilitators for the Bass Valley Landcare Group, which is part of the broader Bass Coast Landcare Network. The group aims to achieve long-term environmental improvement goals for the catchment, focusing on land management and waterways. Moragh & Jodie work closely with individual landholders and community groups to support ongoing land management impro...
Tony Johnson - Villawood Estate Director
มุมมอง 59716 ปีที่แล้ว
Tony Johnson is the Executive Director of Villawood Properties. He is very satisfied with Koolamara Waters, the residential estate in Ferntree Gully. The estate is leading the way in environmental design and the wetlands, designed with Melbourne Water and the Australian Platypus Conservancy, help provide a new home for the platypus that travel there via rock rifles from Monbulk Creek.
Brian Taylor - Private Landholder
มุมมอง 1.7K16 ปีที่แล้ว
Brian Taylor owns a 300-acre dairy farm in the Upper Maribyrnong catchment, with Deep Creek flowing through it. Over the past five years he and his family have been restoring the natural ecosystem along the creek. This has been carried out in conjunction with landowners up and down the creek who have also been "doing their bit" to improve the quality of the water running through their land. "Th...
Huitsons - Dairy Farmers on the Bass River
มุมมอง 98316 ปีที่แล้ว
Lisa and Murray Huitson own and run a dairy farm on the Bass River. The river was heavily infested with willows and five years on, the weeds and willows have been replaced with 15 native species including gum trees, dogwood and swamp paper bark, and they have erected five kilometres of fencing. Although their initial reason for doing the work was to help keep their stock out of the creek (and t...
Jim White - Domaine Chandon
มุมมอง 34716 ปีที่แล้ว
Jim is the Vineyard Manager at Domaine Chandon and looks after 100 acres of vineyard and 180 acres of floodplains. With both Yarra River and Yeringberg Creek frontage. His family has been in the grape growing business for 130 years and Jim "always looks at the state of the environment and striking a balance between agricultural production and maintaining the altered, but natural environment as ...
Waterwatch - Seaford North Primary School
มุมมอง 2.5K16 ปีที่แล้ว
Waterwatch Coordinator Amy Paraman loves working with the kids. Here at Seaford North Primary School the kids are learning frog calls, for example, the Stripped Marsh frog, the Pobblebonk frog. The school will be regular monitors of the Seaford wetlands, which has Ramsar listing and their information will be very useful to the local council.
Eric Bullemore - Private Landholder, Little River
มุมมอง 25916 ปีที่แล้ว
Eric Bullemore owns a 700-acre property on the Little River and in 2000, started 'environmental' works. The banks of the river were so infested with weeds, such as the Tiger Pear and Serrated Tussock, that a lot of the land was inaccessible and unusable. Water flow in Little River is low, but when it rains, the floodwaters breathe new life into the waterway. It's these flood events and the flou...
Trees for Little Bourke Street, Melbourne
มุมมอง 17016 ปีที่แล้ว
David White, Manager of Paddy Palin and Greg Mahoney, President of the Hardware Precinct Association (& Director of Mahoneys Galleries in Hardware Lane) have received their Christmas wish; street trees along their section of Little Bourke Street. Watered by the stormwater in the drains, the trees add to the beauty of the street while also being filters of the rubbish and nutrients that would ot...
Leo Koelwyn - Coolwyn Nurseries
มุมมอง 1.7K16 ปีที่แล้ว
Leo Koelwyn and his family have been in the nursery business since 1952. Leo is a keen advocate of off-stream water storages and has built his own dam which he says, triples the amount of water available. For every one litre of water used on the property, he gets almost 3 litres back. "If we capture water out of the sky or divert it from the creek, it's our responsibility as nurserymen, to real...
aww.. thats a sweet dog!