Region’s first community
washdown facility
The region’s first community washdown facility has been
installed in Darby Munro Park in Collinsville.
LDC shared the cost of the project with Whitsunday Regional
Council.
The facility is available for anybody to use and is designed
to improve regional biosecurity practice by reducing the
spread of weeds across primary production land in the BBB
catchment.
The facility came about as a result of the LDC and Burdekin
Dry Tropics Regional Pest Management Group’s Pest Advisory
Forum held in Collinsville in 2018, where graziers raised
concerns about biosecurity risks associated with outside
bodies accessing grazing lands.
Land managers in the BBB are
committed to region-wide best
practice biosecurity measures. More
than 60 people attended a biosecurity
event in Collinsville in 2018.
Weed prevention is
everyone’s business
LDC hosted an ‘Inspect and clean machinery for plant animal
and soil material’ (accredited training) workshop for local
contractors in Collinsville.
Participants learned about biosecurity, government
legislation, and how to clean and inspect vehicles and
machinery for plant materials.
Jessica Szalinski, Glencore, (standing left) and Penelope Davis, Glencore,
with (sitting, from left) Lindsay Mackie, WRC Works Supervisor Collinsville
Depot and WRC Manager Natural Resources Management Scott Hardy.
The workshop was organised to engage with land managers
outside of the grazing community to ensure everyone who
works in the BBB is working towards the same standard of
practice to keep vehicles, machinery and plant clean.
Weed hygiene workshops have also been held for graziers.
Grader workshops for soil
conservation
Last year LDC hosted landcare specialist and plant operator
Darryl Hill to deliver erosion control grader training to the
project’s pool of plant contractors, and utility, mines and
council employees.
Land managers other than graziers involved in the LDC
project:
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Glencore
Sunwater
Edify
Ergon
Energy Infrastructure
Management (EIM)
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Whitsunday Regional
Council (WRC)
Aurizon
Department of
Transport and Main
Roads (TMR)
Queensland Corporate Communications Network
(QCCN) was also involved in the Influencing Other Land
Managers activity areas.
A series of erosion control and whoa-boy workshops have
been held for landholders, utility providers and contractors.
Landcare specialist and plant operator, Darryl Hill, was
engaged to teach participants practical, alternative
approaches to prevent water erosion on station roads, tracks
fi ebreaks and fence lines.
Land managers also obtained the correct knowledge, skills
and management tools to understand the causes of soil
erosion, how to avoid triggering additional erosion and how
to ameliorate existing erosion.
LDC also filmed an instruction video on ‘how to construct
erosion control banks’ and an ‘explainer’ video for utility
providers, earthworks contractors and landholders. These are
on the LDC website.
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