A project to construct wetlands at 76 Crooke Street, East Bairnsdale, will have significant environmental and landowner benefits.
The land is owned by council and currently functions as an open drain, collecting stormwater from surrounding streets and discharging stormwater into Jones Bay. However, transforming it into a wetland will achieve multiple environmental outcomes including:
- 100 per cent removal of gross pollutants, including litter
- 100 per cent removal of suspended solids
- 81 per cent reduction in current phosphorous discharging to the Lakes
- 33 per cent reduction in the current nitrogen discharging to the Lakes.
Mayor Cr Mark Reeves and councillors met partner agencies Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Federation University and East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority on site last week.

IMAGE: East Gippsland Shire Councillors and staff meet with representatives from partner agencies Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, Federation University and East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority last week to discuss the forthcoming Crooke Street wetlands project in East Bairnsdale.