Council's Coastal Environment Centre is a registered Streamwatch Group, and has supported community catchment monitoring since 1997 with the assistance of volunteers - local residents, local scientists and Macquarie University Environmental Science student project teams. Catchment monitoring is limited by reliance on grant funding, but has amassed a large amount of "catchment snapshot" data over this time. Results are posted to the Streamwatch water quality database and held in the Coastal Environment Centre's library for the information of residents.

How You Can Help

The Community Creekcare Program provides information, equipment and support to assist residents with monitoring their local creek or catchment. Testing equipment for different skill levels and needs is available for loan from the Coastal Environment Centre. By becoming involved in the Community Creekcare Program, you can:

Learn about what is happening to your local creek Participate in regular creek monitoring and gather useful data Promote community awareness and concern for total catchment management Assist in the design and development of a community program that facilitates cooperative planning and action for the conservation of local waterways.   Contact the Coastal Environment Centre

Change Projects & Partners

Council and the community work together to care for the creeks in Pittwater. Several community groups including Ingleside Scout Camp and Camp Kedron now actively conduct catchment assessments, including water quality monitoring within the McCarrs Creek catchment. The involvement of these groups in ecologically sustainable property management planning is an outcome of a CEC project - Across the Landscape, undertaken as Stormwater Education Trust project in 2004. Little Wirreanda Creek has been recognised as a Riverbank Demonstration Site by the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Authority.

• Keeping the Soil on the Island
• Across the Landscape
• Scouts in the Catchment

Updated: 07 Nov 2011