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Cooks River Urban Water Initiative

The Cooks River Urban Water Initiative aims to improve the Cooks River by partnering with the local community and land managers in stormwater and wetland improvement projects across the catchment.

You can view the map of project locations and get the latest news on the Initiative's progress. Further details of the project's objectives are also available or feel free to contact the SMCMA directly for further details.

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Cup and Saucer Creek Wetland Project

This event ties in well with this year's National Water Week theme, which is 'Healthy Catchments, Health Communities'.

The SMCMA was a partner in this project and congratulates Sydney Water, Canterbury City Council and the Cooks River community on the completion of this new wetland for Sydney.
Funding was provided form the Australian Government's Water for our Future Initiative.

The wetland was developed as part of long-term plans to improve the water quality of the Cooks River.

Stormwater will be filtered through the wetland which will also act as habitat for wildlife.

It is anticipated the wetland will remove some five tonnes of sediment, 130 kilograms of nitrogen and 40kgs of phosphorus from the waterway each year.

Johnston Street Bioretention completed!

Johnston St excavation Despite battling the rain for weeks, contractors at Johnston Street Earlwood are putting the final touches on 234m2 bioretention basin. See below for a few photos. Nestled just in the bushland below the urban streets, this structure will remove approximately 2353kg of sediment and 13kg of Nitrogen each year before it enters the valley and Wolli Creek. Will post a few more photos here when the final walkway is in.

In the meantime, a friend forwarded this link today of a community made video of the progress of native plantings at the Cup and Saucer Wetland at Canterbury.

Cup and Saucer Wetland approches completion

Cup and Saucer Wetland - mid construction The much anticipated Cup and Saucer Creek Wetland is almost complete with finalisation of earthworks and landscaping occurring now. The transformation of the once open grassed area has been amazing with the two large oval cells of the wetland dug out and mulch, plants and pathways installed around them. Though the wetland cells are still dry (apart form a little rainwater) it is easy to imagine them soon filled to create the deep and shallow habitat areas for all sorts of birds, frogs and insects......

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