Urban Rivers and Catchment Program
- Project value$1.7 million
- Contractor nameBurnie City Council NRM team
- Completion Date18 February 2028
Burnie City Council was successful in obtaining $1.7 million in grant funding through the Australian Governments Urban Rivers Catchment program.
$200 million was shared across the nation to help restore the health of our urban waterways for native plants, animals, and local communities.
Nearly nearly half of all nationally listed threatened animals - and a quarter of threatened plants - occur in urban areas. They actually share these areas with 96% of Australia’s population.
The Urban Rivers and Catchment program will improve 9 kilometres of riparian corridor in the catchments of Romaine Creek and Shorewell Creek to benefit locally endemic freshwater crayfish and other native species.
It will exclude stock access to waterways, remove environmental weeds, undertake revegetation with local native species, and install several gross pollutant traps.
This program has a 3-year projected timeline, and has commenced as part of Burnie City Councils Annual Plan and Budget for 2025-26.