Water

We are finally at the last stage of our $3.7 million dollar Living Lakes project.

We are now over 2 months into construction for Living Lakes – Stage 3 at Lake Ewlyamartup. The conditions have been favourable to date; however we are anticipating works will slow during winter.

Dean and Jacqui Bicknell from Nunile believe land management is about achieving a balance between sustainable use and conservation.

In the next month, Wheatbelt NRM will be celebrating the end of the very successful Living Lakes project.

Most farms and recreational lifestyle blocks will have a waterway or drain running through them. Some have wetlands or salt lakes. Almost all waterways and wetlands have been altered in some way since native vegetation was cleared from the landscape. Salinity, flooding, erosion, sedimentation and increased nutrients are all factors of change.

Good things come to those who wait and finally, the communities of Yealering and Katanning could celebrate with the recent completion of the Living Lakes project.

School kids in York enjoyed a waterways workshop held on the banks of the Avon River.

The Toodyay workshop was the second of our two school workshops in May as part of our Avon Waterways project. The project is supported by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) and the National Landcare Program.

All eyes have been on the skies this month with many Wheatbelt towns recording above average rains.

Another generation of Wheatbelt land managers stretched their legs at Boshack Outback in Bolgart this week to learn about the impacts of water quality on aquatic macroinvertebrates in the very special Wattening spring complex of wetlands.