Neighbourhood Catchments
We provide funding and support to improve land and water conditions.
The ultimate goal of these projects is to increase productivity and nurture environmental values.
Onground projects are developed in conjunction with the land manager, tailored to address issues specific to a property.
Capacity building projects provide training and development to empower and motivate participants to implement positive management.
Neighbourhood Catchment on-ground projects broadly cover the following activities:
Riparian fencing adjacent to waterways and off-stream watering systems on grazing properties to improve the quality of water leaving the catchment and entering the Reef environment.- Improving the management of degraded and poor land condition areas by bringing back ground cover to provide a sustainable and productive land and reduce the loss of soils from land ending up in our waterways.
- Improving the management of wetlands by establishing infrastructure to control grazing and minimise the impacts production on our wetlands.
- Water use efficiency and chemical efficiency initiatives on horticultural properties to keep soil and chemical on farm and reduce the amount of runoff.
- Strategic weed control support and education to help identify, control and stop the spread of nationally significant weeds in our catchment.
- Improving cropping practices through water use efficiency methods and zero till adoption to reduce the sediment leaving the land.
- Protecting remnant vegetation and biodiversity on property to ensure a long term diversity of species.
Neighbourhood Catchment capacity building programs can focus on:
- Grazing land management and pasture identification
- Monitoring land condition and observing ground cover
- Water monitoring and testing
- Fire Management, bushland management and weed management for small blocks
- Property Management Planning and Topographic mapping
- Weed identification and control strategies
- Healthy soils
The FRCC Neighbourhood Catchment prioritization process includes:
- Community engagement through one on one phone calls, information sessions and a mail out targeting landholders in the priority area.
- An incentive program for on-ground works delivered through individual and group project development and property planning activities.
- A follow-up monitoring program to detect changes at a catchment and property scale.
- A capacity building program designed around the needs of the target community and delivered through workshops, field days and bus trips.
