BOTANY BAY

LAKE CATARACT

APPIN

EPPING

SYDNEY

BOTANY

KURNELL

RANDWICK

CRONULLA

LILYVALE

FAIRFIELD

LIVERPOOL

INGLEBURN

HEATHCOTE

COALCLIFF

AUSTINMER

PARRAMATTA

SUTHERLAND

CAMPBELLTOWN

BULLI HEIGHTS

ROYAL NATIONAL PARK

KOGARAH

ROCKDALE

HURSTVILLE

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RIVERKEEPER PROGRAMREPORT CARD 2013 - 2014

• 70+ tonnes of rubbish collected• 155 work sites

• 17,316 volunteer hours• 2,785m² of Bush Regeneration

LOWER GEORGES RIVERSUBCATCHMENT STATISTICS

RUBBISH COLLECTION = 12,702 Kg COMMUNITY HOURS = 4,906

Scarborough Ponds

KgHOURS#SITES

1,7886884

Botany Bay Foreshore

KgHOURS#SITES

1,7006514

Lower Reach - Georges River

KgHOURS#SITES

6,0232,32020

Kogarah Bay

KgHOURS#SITES

1,3455873

Towra Point & Kurnell Peninsula

KgHOURS#SITES

1,8486605

SHARED SERVICERiverkeeper Program works across the catchment are performed by corporate groups, volunteers and the Department of Corrective Services NSW, which contributes community service hours from offenders who are on Intensive Correction Orders. Diversified labour is a valuable and growing part of the Riverkeeper Program and a great benefit to the river.

PARTNERSHIP WITH CORRECTIVE SERVICES NSWCorrective Services NSW Teams continued to provide on ground outcomes across the catchment and the partnership with the GRCCC has continued to grow strongly. A joint application between the GRCCC and CSNSW in the Keep Australia Beautiful Clean Beaches Awards 2013 was awarded a regional Environmental Protection Award (Sydney/Illawarra) and highly commended in the regional Community Partnerships (Sydney/Illawarra) Award.

RIVERKEEPER’S MESSAGEThe Riverkeeper Program’s year has continued to provide positive environmental results for the Georges River and the program laid the foundations for greater resources in coming years with the successful Green Army application and Aboriginal Riverkeeper Teams. The Riverkeeper Program aims to protect the ecological health and biodiversity of the Georges River system via the collection of litter and rubbish and the regeneration of weed infested remnant bushland. The program has continued to deliver large scale rubbish removal with 70.2 tonne of rubbish removed from the river system in 2013/14.

Tony WalesRiverkeeper Coordinator

DELIVERING CATCHMENT WIDE RUBBISH COLLECTION AND BUSH REGENERATION

ABORIGINAL RIVERKEEPER TEAMThe Aboriginal Riverkeeper team supported through funding by the Australian Government, has commenced work to restore bushland and establish ecological connectivity across 150 hectares of the Georges River catchment. The Aboriginal team is comprised of 4 Aboriginal Trainees, an Aboriginal Project Manager and a Team Supervisor. The team of bush regenerators will work at a number of project sites across the catchment. The project will provide the trainees with the opportunity to work towards the attainment of qualifications in Conservation Land Management. Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) will also work in partnership with the GRCCC on this project and share Traditional Ecological Knowledge with the trainees.

GREEN ARMY TEAMSThe GRCCC on behalf of its member Councils prepared a successful submission to the Australian Government for 12 Green Army Projects. The projects involve three teams of up to nine participants each working to restore significant areas of bushland across the Georges River catchment. The three GRCCC Green Army teams will work in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Georges River. The Green Army teams will add significant value to the GRCCC Riverkeeper program for the next two years.

BOTANY BAY

LAKE CATARACT

APPIN

EPPING

SYDNEY

BOTANY

KURNELL

RANDWICK

CRONULLA

LILYVALE

FAIRFIELD

LIVERPOOL

INGLEBURN

HEATHCOTE

COALCLIFF

AUSTINMER

PARRAMATTA

SUTHERLAND

CAMPBELLTOWN

BULLI HEIGHTS

ROYAL NATIONAL PARK

KOGARAH

ROCKDALE

HURSTVILLE

BOTANY BAY

LAKE CATARACT

APPIN

EPPING

SYDNEY

BOTANY

KURNELL

RANDWICK

CRONULLA

LILYVALE

FAIRFIELD

LIVERPOOL

INGLEBURN

HEATHCOTE

COALCLIFF

AUSTINMER

PARRAMATTA

SUTHERLAND

CAMPBELLTOWN

BULLI HEIGHTS

ROYAL NATIONAL PARK

KOGARAH

ROCKDALE

HURSTVILLE

TOTAL CATCHMENT BUSH REGENERATION

BANKSTOWN

TOTAL CATCHMENT RUBBISH COLLECTION70,276 TOTAL Kg 2,785 TOTAL M2

17,316 TOTAL HOURS 496 TOTAL HOURSRegeneration teams are restoring degraded, remnant bushland on foreshores, creeks and tributaries across the catchment. Work is undertaken along the river system to improve ecological health and species biodiversity.

Riverkeeper Program teams provide broad-scale removal of rubbish from the river’s foreshores, creeks and tributaries. Member councils identify rubbish ‘hotspots’ on the river.

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This graph shows the amount of rubbish progressively collected as it moves down the river system. Look to see which subcatchment you live in and then look at how much rubbish was prevented from reaching you.

PREVENTATIVE COLLECTION OF RUBBISH

MID GEORGES RIVERSUBCATCHMENT STATISTICS

RUBBISH COLLECTION = 42,122 Kg COMMUNITY HOURS = 9,581

Cabramatta Creek

KgHOURS#SITES

4,4351,05511

Prospect Creek

KgHOURS#SITES

10,0982,16424

Mid Reach - Georges River

KgHOURS#SITES

6,8401,44414

Chipping Norton Lakes

KgHOURS#SITES

13,1402,35313

Little Salt Pan Creek

KgHOURS#SITES

9982283

Salt Pan Creek

KgHOURS#SITES

6,6132,28011

UPPER GEORGES RIVER

2013 - 2014 2013 - 2014

SUBCATCHMENT STATISTICSRUBBISH COLLECTION = 15,452 Kg COMMUNITY HOURS = 2,829

LEGEND Rubbish Collection Worksites

Bunbury Curran Creek

KgHOURS#SITES

10,5631,86310

Upper Reach - Georges River

KgHOURS#SITES

4,8909664

2013 - 2014 Results