Hanna Swamp has become a fascinating test case for urban waterway policy in Melbourne

Posted at 28 Oct 2020 at 13:55h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

Hanna Swamp Discussion Paper: Analysing the gaps in policy and planning for wetlands within Melbourne’s urban growth areas

Posted at 31 Jul 2020 at 19:23h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

Hanna Swamp: a forgotten Wallan Wallan wetland that highlights the challenges of ‘business as usual’ urban development

Posted at 25 Jun 2020 at 23:05h in News, Scale Swamp restoration, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

It hasn’t been restored yet, so how do we explain the temporary return of Herne Swamp?

Posted at 30 Apr 2020 at 23:52h in News, Urban wetland restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

Let’s start a conversation about the future of Herne Swamp and the Wallan Wallan Wetlands

Posted at 13 Mar 2019 at 16:14h in News, Urban wetland restoration, Wetland Restoration by Mark Bachmann

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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...

Urban wetland restoration

Hanna Swamp has become a fascinating test case for urban waterway policy in Melbourne

Hanna Swamp Discussion Paper: Analysing the gaps in policy and planning for wetlands within Melbourne’s urban growth areas

Hanna Swamp: a forgotten Wallan Wallan wetland that highlights the challenges of ‘business as usual’ urban development

It hasn’t been restored yet, so how do we explain the temporary return of Herne Swamp?

Let’s start a conversation about the future of Herne Swamp and the Wallan Wallan Wetlands

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