The Grit October 2020 | Page 3

New funding for BBB work to keep rolling out
State government support for LDC continues
Scottville Mob performing a ‘ labour of love ’

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New funding for BBB work to keep rolling out

N

Q Dry Tropics has secured $ 5m to continue to roll out water quality projects in the Bowen , Broken and Bogie ( BBB ) catchments . The funding has been made available through the Water Quality Improvement program funded by the partnership between the Australian Government ’ s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation .

State government support for LDC continues

Through the 2020- 2021 Queensland

Government budget , NQ Dry Tropics has secured an additional $ 200,000 to invest in the Landholders Driving Change project to June 2021 .

Scottville Mob performing a ‘ labour of love ’

group of

A landholders

from Scottville , near Collinsville , banded together two years ago to address erosion issues on their properties .
THE
LANDHOLDERS Driving Change is a Burdekin Major Integrated
Project funded by the Queensland Government through the
Queensland Reef Water Quality Program .
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