Funding to Restore Waterways

Have you always wanted to restore the waterways on your land?

Tablelands Regional Council has fully funded projects to restore riparian (along waterways) vegetation on private land in the TRC Region.

‘Landholders in our region with land including and/or bordering waterways can apply to have their waterways restored through weed management, restoration and/or fencing.

‘TRC will manage the work, provide the necessary advice and be responsible for reporting to the funding body.

‘All landowners/managers need to do is watering, weed management and commit to providing photo-point monitoring every six months for three years.

‘Restoring our waterways reduces erosion, filters runoff, reduces nutrients, fertiliser, herbicides and pesticides entering the waterways, increases habitat extent and connectivity, contributes to carbon sequestration, increases canopy-cover, and reduces weed cover and spread.

‘The changes will be hugely beneficial to the immediate land, but also along the whole catchment all the way to the Great Barrier Reef,’ said Councillor Baade.

Submit your expression of interest by 20 August 2024.

TRC is proud to be a Reef Guardian Council — an initiative of the Reef Authority — delivering real outcomes for the Great Barrier Reef. Funding for this project has been provided to TRC from the Australian Government to enable Reef Guardian Councils to deliver projects and activities identified in their Reef Action Plans.