Over the past few years, NGT has been exploring the complex challenge of how to ensure that floodplain and/or instream wetlands which were drained and farmed as a result of agricultural development, are not subsequently forgotten when land use change occurs and such areas are...
It's time to revisit an issue we've been talking about for a few years through the NGT newsletter - the challenges for wetlands in Melbourne's urban growth zones. Ahead of the release next month of a third NGT Discussion Paper about the wallan wallan wetlands...
Over the past couple of years, we've been exploring the potential for natural wetlands to be restored and enhanced as part of the land-use change process initiated by urban development. For more information on past stories, please follow this link.To highlight this potential, a recent...
Over the past couple of years we have started to discuss the stories of Hanna Swamp, Herne Swamp and the Wallan Wallan Wetlands as initial case study sites for exploring the complex web of policy and practical challenges that face wetlands in Melbourne's urban growth...
Back in the July newsletter, we released a discussion paper and revisited the story of Hanna Swamp, a long drained and modified (formerly in-stream) wetland of Strathaird Creek near Wallan, situated in the approved urban growth corridor north of Melbourne.Not long after the release of...
Last month we introduced you to Hanna Swamp, a little known wetland near Wallan, north of Melbourne.This month, we are exploring in fine detail the intricacies of how overarching Victorian Government water policy (like the Integrated Water Management (IWM) Framework and Healthy Waterways Strategy) converges...
Patrick Hanna, MLA/MLC, (b. 1819, d. 1890)Next month NGT will be publicly sharing another Discussion Paper on the Wallan Wallan wetlands, to follow on from one we released in March last year (2019), where we explored the risks and opportunities associated with Herne Swamp. This...
After heavy rainfall a few weeks ago north of Melbourne, we got another temporary glimpse of a portion of Herne Swamp, the once expansive (but now artificially drained) natural floodplain wetland at the headwaters of Merri Creek.For those of you that may have missed it, we...
Last year, after giving a talk to a group of guests at Walker Swamp (who attended the Biolinks Alliance symposium in June), I was invited to inspect Herne Swamp, an artificially drained wetland situated at Wallan (north of Melbourne, near the headwaters of Merri Creek). We...
