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Practical
Ecology has been involved with a large number of successful
projects throughout Victoria. Our clients include most local
councils, many government organisations, and large and small
property owners.
Recent
achievements include design and implementation works leading to two
awards from Keep Australia Beautiful. In the first, awarded
to the City of Whitehorse for Blackburn Lake Sanctuary, Practical
Ecology was responsible for:
- Initial
project design and fauna surveys;
- Revegetation planting
composition and schedules;
- Planting
works; and
- Follow-up
maintenance.
Melbourne
Water, in "The Source", had the following to say about the
project:
Taking
pride in a local beauty spot
More than
four years of planning and works to rehabilitate a section of creek
within a key regional bushland park has won the City of Whitehorse
a significant environmental award.
Melbourne
Water, the Victorian Government's Stormwater Action Program,
community and environment groups worked with the Council to convert
the upstream end of Blackburn Lake from an eyesore into a sanctuary
for birds and other local wildlife, and a valuable recreational
asset for residents and visitors.
The
collaborative project helped the Council take out a Keep Australia
Beautiful City Pride Award for 2004.
The lake
had been infested with willows and other weeds, and litter,
industrial run-off and pollution spills had further degraded water
quality.
The Council
and Melbourne Water worked together to build sediment ponds and the
Wurundjeri Walk wetlands, establishing aquatic and native plants as
part of major revegetation works.
In the second Keep Australia
Beautiful award, Practical Ecology (via the City of Whittlesea) was
recognised for its works at the Growling Frog Golf Club, including
the following:
- Input on design and layout
based on ecological values;
- Design of native vegetation
and environmental management plans;
- Supervision of construction
works to ensure protection of native vegetation; and
- Documentation of the
project.
In combination with other
collaborators on the project, Practical Ecology recently received
an award from the Stormwater Industry Association Victoria, as the
winner of the category "Constructed WSUD on a
greenfield".
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