Annual Report - City of Bayswater

Sustainable environmentGobba LakeDuring 2009-10 the City of Bayswaterwas actively involved in a range ofenvironmental management activitiesand continued to undertake a rangeof “on ground” projects. Some keyprojects included:Greenhouse gas emissionsand climate change;The City continued to work withthe Eastern Metropolitan RegionalCouncil (EMRC) to reduce carbonemissions and develop actions to beable to adapt to Climate Change.The City partnered with the otherfive member Councils and theEMRC to identify how climatechange is likely to directly affect thePerth’s Eastern Region.Bushland, foreshore andwetland management;The City continued to undertakeenvironmental restoration work suchas weed control, revegetation andpest management in partnershipwith “Friends of” groups and thecommunity at:Gobba Lake $20,000Lightning SwampBushland $41,900Baigup Wetland $50,000Eric Singleton BirdSanctuary $11,000Riverside Gardens $14,000Hinds Reserve $10,000Bayswater BrookStream and Wetlands $14,000One of the major projects for theyear included restoring anothersection of riverbank along the TranbyForeshore. The City stabilised thebank by installing rock rip rap (a rockstabilisation technique) to secure thebase of the bank and also replantedthe slopes of the bank usingnative vegetation.The City also received a grantof $120,000 to plan, design andconstruct the river walling at BathStreet during 2010/11.Catchment management;The City of Bayswater works withthe Swan River Trust, Perth RegionNRM, Department of Water, the WaterCorporation and CSIRO to reducethe amount of nutrients entering theSwan River through a Local WaterQuality Improvement Plan. The planaims to achieve a 30% reductionin nutrients entering the Swan andCanning Rivers. Some of the projectsimplemented during the year included:• Bayswater Brook Catchmentactivity day:The second Bayswater BrookCatchment Activity Day inpartnership with the Swan RiverTrust’s Ribbons of Blue washeld in May 2010, with over240 students from years four toseven attending over two daysto participate in fun activities tolearn about the river and watercatchment issues.• Community planting day:The community planted 750plants at Lightning Park, 1,100plants at Tranby Foreshore, 2,000plants at Gobba Lake, 750 plantsat Riverside Gardens and 1,500plants at Crimea Wetland.• Bayswater Brook Catchmentwater quality monitoringThe City of Bayswater and SwanRiver Trust undertook a waterquality monitoring program to lookfor the sources of nutrients andpollution within the catchment.This will guide future managementto improve the quality of the waterentering the Swan River.Great Gardens WorkshopsThe City has hosted Great GardensWorkshop in partnership with theSwan River Trust, Water Corporationand the Great Gardens team since2003. In this time the City has heldover 40 workshops. During 2009-10, the City hosted a further fiveworkshops. The workshops showgardeners how they can have abeautiful landscape and house thatcosts less and uses a fraction of thewater, energy and nutrients.city of bayswater annual report 2009-1017