In August 2022, FoGCV was invited to attend a guided walk along Gardiners Creek organised by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) Deakin Community with guide Neville Walsh. Neville Walsh is a recently retired senior botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. About 35 people attended. It was pleasing that the extensive achievements of FoGCV over …
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Love Our Street 3145 commenced operation on March 6th, 2022. Love Our Street 3145 teamed with four groups of 23 students (the entire Year 9) from Sacre Coeur and picked up lots and lots of litter between Winton Road and Great Valley Road on four consecutive Wednesdays in July and August 2022. https://www.beachpatrol.com.au/activity-blog/3458 https://www.beachpatrol.com.au/los/3145/59
The map on this page is from our circa 1990s promotional brochure and shows our area of operation over the last 30 years.
SITS IN THE OLD GUM TREE Laughing Kookaburra, Glenburn Bend Park 2022 Photo by George Fernando We are seeing Kookaburras along Gardiners Creek, Glen Iris after a long absence. It is always a heart-warming sight to see these birds and listen to their noisy laughing call, so well-known by everybody. I have been seeing a …
We’ve been producing a quarterly newsletter for our members for many years. These are always a great way to see the wildlife that’s been spotted along Gardiners Creek, stay in touch with local community initiatives and learn intriguing facts about the environment and how to keep it luscious! We don’t want you to miss out! …
Markham Avenue Reserve includes a section of Gardiners Creek, its riverbank and adjacent Red Gum woodland, plus some revegetation over the last 20 years. Markham Avenue Reserve is located at Melway ref. 60 E12. The Site Biological Significance Level for Markham Reserve is STATE. The western section of the reserve, adjacent to the proposed housing …
A Gardiners Creek Nature Trail is proposed to highlight natural features, distinctive trees and plants and the history of Gardiners Creek. The Gardiners Creek Nature Trail will be designed as a series of fractals with multiple start and end points adjacent to high pedestrian traffic locations along its length. The Gardiners Creek Nature Trail will …
This project is a collaboration with Friends of Gardiners Creek Valley led by Sarah Naarden in the City of Stonington Environmental Champions Group. It is set up to champion Indigenous Community Engagement for the Kooyongkoot Masterplan in an Environmental design studio with Monash University. We propose to bio-remediate or filter the water toxins including invisible …
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The Black Bridge, Melway Map 69 B1, on the Outer Circle Railway opened in 1890. The Black Bridge was a wooden trestle bridge. John Monash was the chief engineer for the Outer Circle Railway. The Black Bridge was dismantled during WWII. https://en-gb.facebook.com/Past2Present1/photos/a.718458668183372.1073741954.606892929339947/718966651465907/ The Glenferrie Road Bridge, Melway Map 59 D3, was widened by John Monash …
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Methane gas as energy from sewage.. A chemical explanation of the energy levels from different fuels: https://people.wou.edu/~courtna/GS361/Energy_From_Fossil_Fuels.htm International Projects: https://www.globalmethane.org/documents/ww_fs_eng.pdf https://www.clarke-energy.com/applications/sewage-gas/ What Melbourne Water is already doing:https://www.melbournewater.com.au/what-we-are-doing/news/upgraded-biogas-covers Harvesting energy from a hydraulic wheel spinning in sewage or stormwater pipes, i.e. using the energy of the flow rather than the gas.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095809917300875 Methane gas as energy from …
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