The Cooks River Freshwater Park Revegetation and Maintenance Project 2005-2007 builds on Strathfield Council’s existing Cooks River Restoration Project. The Cooks River Restoration Project aimed to rehabilitate an important green corridor within Freshwater Park, Strathfield. The project involved the stabilisation of the riverbanks and the riverbed using ecologically sensitive techniques including natural rock and re-vegetation.
The current Revegetation and Maintenance Project compliments the existing project and aims to enhance the area through weed removal and replanting of local provenance vegetation to further stabilise soils, to filter nutrients and sediment, and to provide important habitat for aquatic and terrestrial fauna by increasing the density of riparian vegetation and removing sediment.
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Partners
- Strathfield Council
- Strathfield Golf Club
- Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority
- Cooks River Foreshores Working Group
- Sydney Central Regional Weeds Committee
Outcomes
Primary treatment and removal of terrestrial weeds and maintenance of Stages 1 and 2 commenced in December 2005. Secondary treatment of weeds and maintenance continues on a monthly basis and will conclude in April 2007.
Planting of local provenance vegetation on the banks of Stages 1 and 2 will be completed in April 2007.
In response to the Sydney Central Regional Weeds Committee’s Alligator Weed and Ludwigia Management Project in the Sydney Central Region. Mapping of aquatic weeds in Freshwater Park was funded by the SCRWC and carried out in November 2005. Council’s maintenance contractor carried out the aquatic weed removal in April 2006.
Strathfield Council is currently preparing tender documents for Stage 3 of the Cooks River Bank Restoration Project. Stage 3 aims to continue riverbank restoration upstream of the completed Stages 1 and 2 with proposed works to include weed removal, bank stabilisation and revegetation using ecologically sensitive techniques.
Strathfield Golf Club will continue to assist Council with ongoing revegetation, monitoring and maintenance works.
For further information regarding the Cooks River Restoration Project or bush regeneration activities in the Strathfield Municipality please contact Council’s Environmental Projects Officer on 9748 9961.
