Great turn out for water quality webinar

Sand and mangroves in the foreground on the banks of a waterway.

More than 80 people attended our recent Initiative 1: Improving water quality and reducing litter webinar earlier this month.

Aimed at giving council staff insight into the many water quality projects funded via the Marine Estate Management Strategy and the resources available through these projects.

Local Land Services staff presented on their differing projects to keep our rivers clean through riverbank rehabilitation and stabilisation works, better fertiliser management and improving roads and tracks adjacent to waterways.

Staff from Department of Primary Industries detailed how their Clean Coastal Catchment research is helping farmers keep fertiliser on farm and out of our coastal waterways.

We had Department of Planning and Environment staff helping council better understand how they can apply the risk-based framework to improve water quality in their LGA and DPI Fisheries staff talking on everything from wetland rehabilitation to oyster reef restoration projects and our popular Fish Friendly workshops for councils program.

There were lots of interesting questions in our Q and A session everything from, “will the Fish Friendly workshops come to my area,” to, “will the Clean Coastal Catchment research program expand into other industries like poultry farming?”

If you missed this and are keen to catch up, you can view the webinar here.

Thanks to all our fantastic presenters and keen attendees.